TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1483, 17 October 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.) *'./-' " v Auckland, Friday. King Tawhiao, the Queen of Karotonga, King Atiu and suite will visit' tKe« King Country. The embassy hope to see a Government representative before they leave New Zealand, as they have important matters to discuss, among, othe^Sj that of making a reciprocity treaty, and] the appointment of New Zealand . Besidents for the islands, which they view with favor. The Queen and consort have authority over four islands.- .". William Bennett, commission agent, ' has been arrested on a charge of forging , an order on the Bank of Australasia at; Hamilton for £15. Other charges ; are pending. , ... • , /; ?.V,'.'., A post mortem examination on Musket showed the cause of death to be in- , ternal hcemorrhage. The left : feint-ley i was found to be greatly disease^ 1 , j'Ap-' parently the disease was of long' stand;: ing. Great regret is felt by the .public at his death and the loss to the Stud Company. Unfortunately he was not insured, the Australasian Live Stock Society not being prepared to give a risk for more than JSOO, but he was'insured against fire. ' ; : Hastings, Friday. Tlie show to-day was attended by • nearly 5000. persons, the weather- beingvery favorable. Piscatdrious wasawarfl- 5 ed first prize and champion for best en tire. The cattle were very' superior. The prize for the champion yearling, bull was awarded to, Mr ; MoHardy. )For farm horses Mr J. D. Ormond was awarded ; first prize, and highly.\-com-manded by the judges,, who, . averred the items. would have been worthy o^comße-, tition with any horses m ihe'Wrld ' of : a* similar class. iTiMAHCßrfiiayliJ-i The Geraldihe" Counly Cloimcj^y^ter-,, day elected Mr J, Talbot chairnla|i, and E. "A. Barker member tb 'represent;' f tlie' Council on the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Board. - Chmstohurch', Fridayi* ; Mr C. C. Bowen has been effected" to the Board of Education; vice Mr H. B. Webb resigned. The-Board jhas decfded to increase the number of scholarships given annually from 10 t0 ; 13,. r- ; ; ; ? ,, v .-, < =. JDaNEDEWi /Friday. Judgment was given on Wednesday m an appeal case arising ou,t, of, a. jtjrpyt prosecution at Lake Wakatipn, m which the Magistrate liad dismissed an information . laid by a constable, dti the ground '^fiat' only an officer of the Acclimatisation' Society could lay an information under' the Trnut Act. His Honor held this decision of the Magistrate to.be wrong, and granted the appeal, with £10 10s and costs. In the Divorce Court yesterday, m the case of Margaret McKain Blair Henderson v. John Henderson, of Christcburch, a rule nisi was granted' on the 1 grounds of desertion and adultery. ' ' ; / ; i -