TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1476, 9 October 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PKR JNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. j| ! x , /£HBlsi^tfßO&. Thpre<lay.\ \ At the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday, th 9 Chairman, Mr H. Thomson, spoke strongly m favor of the Board taking steps urder the Hospital and Charitable :'lnstitiitipn Act ■? ttpi -have « the , Hospital \ nianaged ihitependenj)^ A f ok ithe District Boards to be "elected shortly, and that it should be supported by voluntary subscriptions. Dr Turnbull opposed-tbe pronbsitiou, and r ihe discussion was a^jburnedf At a meeting of thet^dusxrial Association iCommittee last night'lfc, reply to Dr yon Haast's letter,.whiohrefl|Btedonthe President of the Association itii ?e^rence \.o some remarks he had made re the Indian and Colonial Exhibition^ was •adopted. The reply pointed out that the Association was really anxious to forward the Exhibition, and regretted the temper exhibited m Dr Haast's letter., '^>; Tlje Canterbury Cricket Association decided last night that, they could not (promise to send a representative team to : Tasinania or Auckland this season, but they will endeavor to get up a team to visit |Wellington. ■ ;J ; In vergakgill, Thu|iday. ; . A fire broke out on - the/east^ side of 'Dee-street this morning at 1.30, just opposite the scene of the fire last^eek. Ik commenced m a shop occupied by Mr Mine,! umbrella and basket" wiker, and three otlier wooden buildinga — Nojvson's boot shop,. Knng . Wha'a .Chinese bo^rding-hpuse. and -an empty