TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1472, 5 October 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

, , (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . ' Auckland, Friday. Captain Macgregor, Managing. Director of the Northern Steamshio Company/ has i -received a letter from the Seamen's "Union, intimating that the latter haye: decided to adhere" to their rules respect-" ing overtime, under dispute. 'For th'e Gillies and Sinclair' Scholarships'there are live candidates, 7 two of 'wtibm are from Dunedin High School, and two from Canterbury. One is a lady.. There is only one from Auckland., ' ;".;.." Before the AVairarapa sailed yesterday, a girl namevl Ethel Grey, or Rubin, was arrested on a charge of larceny as ; a bai'ce of furniture of, the value of £130. ' The goods were stated to ba in a house of ill fame. The "case was dismissed. ; • rAeman numed 'Philip Tea.<nie, while putting out a tire m his house, burst a blood vessel, and expired. ..,..,- Blenheim, Saturday.. A depntation,accompanying a petition to the Colonial Secretary "with 730 signa- ; tures. against the Jiospital .being ; built; on the site selected by the 'Commissioners, anil' agreed' to be purchased by the Government, left for Wellington last night. ■■'•;:'•■ •■ -- ''■ •• : Invercargill, Saturday. ; In the case of the teacher at Orepuki (who locked ' the doo/r on. a crowded meeting iii'tUe schoolhoiise at Mr Fred. Fulton's lectures) -before the Education Board yesterday, the following resolution : i was carried :-— " That, Mr Young, haying apologised for his foolish and disorderly act, which he declared was done m a moment- .of irritation, the Boai'd still .consider the act highly censurable;' but, '•■ see'ihg 1 that the" committee, and a great | majority of the householders m the di.^ trict, are desirous -of allowing the matter to pass; land- 6bseryin« their gonera.! high \ opinion of Mr Young's previo is conduct ; as a teaj>h;e.r, r the Board resolves, to en , dorse the 'action" "of. jth'e School Com- 1 mittee." ', iScjveral members expressed an opinion 4hat tW resolution <was too lenient. Tt was proposed that Mr Young receive . three months' notice, but the : original motion was eventually carried without dissent; „ .( __, _.' _ s _,f >. w r y, r l - - t< H RisTc^trKCßf, Saturdays The ca'endar , of. cases to be > heard at j the Supreme 1 Court, "- which -Opens on | Monday., is very light. There are_ only \ fiya charges against sue prisoners; two | of wtioM we're committed' for trial at the jj Lyttelton Resideut , Magistrate's Court \ to-day, for, assaulting, wjth intent to rob. ! Tl)e charges cnmpi-ise-larceny sis a bailee, false: ; pretences, housebreakinff, andrun- <- natural offence. : * I .■ Wellington, Saturday. The rumour that the Government intended' to take over the • management of the New Zealand^Rifle Association is in- ; correct. " . ' ; With Reference to the qnarantined circus at, Auckland ,'thd Colonial Sffcre- ! tary last night received a cablegram from j the Bremier of New South Wales that .•, the Government of_that colony would i , make no concessions as to landing of the circus. t \The principal changes- which appeair 'm the new, scale of , railway charges, ; gazetted last niglit, are tliat daily return tickets arc. to be issued for- suburban traffic, and on some of the. lines a redncjho'ri has been made on charges for merchandise. A new feature m the passenfares is the introduction of market 'tickets. These tickets will be issued to all passengers for towns m which there ; is a weekly market, and on 1 the : same terms as Saturday return tickets.