TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1475, 8 October 1885, Page 2

TELE GRAMS.

(I'BE jnitbd pkbss Association. : pHBiSTOHUROH.j Wednesday., : r On Sun<iay;Jast an 'old manOamed, I Lambert, residing at Kowai Bush, was 10.-it between that place and Springfield. Wheii last seen he was under the induene of liquor. A party went out this morning, aud found his body at the. foot o.f a high terrace, over v/hich it is supposed 'he -had fallen. . ,, Ut . , IP -t J. $cott atid^isH'i^iner, ' A. "AustinVar-* 'rivedj here . to^complete preparations for a maTio'ri w "for iiSlOO^aside-^cbtt-vi' Hancbck. £300 has already been deposited wifch Mr:.C:'fl. Williams,' arid the i 'final jiepositof £100, will be made [next 'Friday. Owing td.iheprevious.perforuiances of the men in ' Duneflin.'the match is exciting. considerable interest .here. . The CahUrbiuy' Chess 'Club 1 'haVe'fe^ solved to arrange fora, by telegraph with twelve of the Napier Club. ; ' Dunedin, Wednesday. : j The firing of the guns at St. Clair arid ■ ForburyViHeads was not. so successful as regards J&poting ; as .Avas that of the previous. d.^^T-he report was, not so bad^ as was expected, arid the > }precaiitions " taken tot-^^t'egt-the houses m the neigh;borho9dJfw)Sei|6und quite unnecessary, j '^^J^uckland, Wednesday. The Collector of Customs has forwarded a letter to| the Auckland Harbor Board assuring &em of the gratification 6± Governraerit on hearing that r compulsory ] • pilotage had been •abolished m the port,' which course' the Miuister ot the Depart|ment considers will doubtless tend to the prosperity of the port..