TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1480, 14 October 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

r (PKR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIOX. ' ! "' Dunedin, Tuesday. ~ .Regarding-., the band contest decision, the Garrison* Band are of opinion .they; • . have not been well treated, and are pre- - 1: pared to challenge any band m the. Colony if Judys' Fenton, of Auckland;- ' | '(whose knowledge of musical matters, is known throughout the Colony), will consent to act as judge. The escort- brought down £$0,000/=, | worth of gold yesterday. ' ''-' Kilgour. a patient m the Ashbnrn Asylum, was drowned m a creek on ■■ -I Sunday. .... In the Gamble v. Adair will case, the '.■/.; Judge said there was ho sufficient reason to believe the will was influenced by delusion j nor that it was not executed intelligently by the testatrix. Probate would ' ■ be granted to plaintiff. ' '''•': : - --.:.■ !,,) /; ; „. HoKITIKA. Tuesday. The Ross United Company .washed tip ' with a total of 228 ounces from both faces, produced, principally from the Prince of Wales' faee^ ■ > > ... ;, ; „, „i Crristohoroh, Tuesday. In the Divorce Court yesterday, Mr Justice Johnston granted a decree, i\isi. m,, (r Sweet v. Sweet' m which' case thV 'Wife*'' ; ' •petitioned against her husband, who is absent from the Colony. A similar' "''": decree was granted m Mcßratney vj L Mcßratney f . m which the husband peti- ." tioned, arid' the' wife did not appear. \ Ap r . ; plication for making decree absolute to rl .;: be made m jbhe former case m six mqnths, and m the latter case m three """ 'months. • Yesterday morning a deputation of the unemployed waited on "-Mr Holmes, M.H.R., and presented a 'pejtition signed by 40 married men. It was stated that 300 signatures could be got without difficulty. Mr Holmes [promised." to communicate with the Government. Blenheim, Tuesday. A. slight shock of earthquake was felt at 6.20 on .Sunday evening. The weather was sultry.; yesterday for the tiirie of- .-. the year, and the thermometer 92 m tfie^ '■£ ■; sun. : TiiiAftu, TuesflaV' ; ' Armour, a sailor of the : s.s.!.'Ohatt, : </ : while engaged mooring the vpsael yesterday, morning. 1 had his leg broken -just above the. ankle, through the snapping of the 'chain. . ; He was taken' to the Hbs- /'•• \ pital. : ' ; ' > ■:<:. ./ ; New Plymouth, Tuesday. The damage done to the breakwatf ( r" by last week's storm 1 was found' to Jj c A nit very serious; and repairs were f ,n- < •shod on Saturday night. The statena eit/ ; < that 300 feet had subsided is not corr ect. • One section . % had been undermined by' the sea, and, had subsided about' a fr , o t. „ " ; . ; , . i v . , •■: Auckland, Tuesf | B y. ; i "At the Siipreme Court yest erday, Tlionias Francis Holt, for erahezz .lenient; of a ■ Friendly Society's funds, w as sen- s tenced to six months' hard labor . ' ' At a riip'etfng of the Aucklaj id TriUi-' tute of Architectß, a resolution was bar- ■ ried declaring that, m their o; Hniohj'the^ i premiums offered by Gover 'ment for: competitive designs for the 7 Ins.nr-; ; ance Buildings were inadf .qnate, and that tho time was insufficion • b# /Yhe time should be extended to De member 2Brl, and the first premium rased' se d to £300. with £150 for. the second. , ' . Dunn, the celebrated br irf r] ar , has been '"" sentenced to 14 years for ' . burglary at the Oxford Hotel.