TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1484, 19 October 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PKR ffNIMD PRKSB ASSOCIATION.) AucttAND, Saturday, j; At the Diocesan Synod, m replying to' a question of the Rev* W/Tebba to f to the truth of the report that the Archbishop of Canterbury " had prohibited colonially -ordained cleragr,,fi:pta pffioiating m the prbVinee of Canterbury (England), Bishop Cowie said he knew, nothr ing of the report, but considered it ifrcredible. r A prosecution of an unusual character came before the Police Court yesterday, the Polic* Offenws Act being'utiiiMd to secure the removal of objeoti'ririable' tenants., The magistrates dismissed the case on the evidence. The solicitor applied for. costs, and said the prosecution was an attempt to wre«t the Act to a Wrong purpose. The BenbHj hbweyjir, declined to allow costs. . ! The steam-tup Black Diamond, belonging to the Bay of(Ifll»nds Goal Cpmpanv, took fire m the harbor yesterday morning. , The.> damage , : H. i«to I* o^^°P; The insurance is £500, m the New Zealand. ; DoNßpiK,;Saturday. .The final deposit for the running match Between 1 Hunt, 'of 1 Sydney, I : and. "V^oo^s, of Dnrii»din( for 1 £200 ..arid, the championship,' wis made thisl' evening. The distances are .100. 220, and 440 yards. ;A , gpod,, deal of wagerijug took place afterwards. Hunt Was theTavorite for the short, distance, but 6-to 4 was freely laid on Woods for Ahe. whole ■ match.- .]>:' f'ii'iKZfiiihM-- ■•■' • „ The hearing of die charge of murder against Margaret Brown was continued. The- case was'adjoiifhed to "Prof f essor Black to conclude his analysis of the stains found-on the bannister and brush. - . ; ■/. 5320 shares m the Southern* dross Petroleum Company, 'Poye^tjr Bar, f6rfeited for non-pay^eriMl^alwi'Sfrdre of. fered at auction yesterday, and 805 were „ 'sold at a penhf a'pieceV' : w fl ~ ■ ■: i ;f : ,. "■ ■•.■'• ; . . '.- ■■•-■■t ;■•"■'•' '/jJLJ ''?:->i -r Jtiii.i:iV">_' ; »ii.*W ,;..,. Timaru, Saturday. , John Munro, head! shepherd on the Mount Mistake station, m the Mackenzie j jd^!TO^,jp^. l iT^on^ay afternoon, m Lake Tekapo. th jough*.the capsizing of a boat abbuc three miles from the ferry. A man named Thomas Goodman, wnb i waV'wltß'' Munrb, wa's picked off the bottom of the boat m an exhausted,'; ''condition. 1 Munfo i KadJ no relations m the Colony, so far a«.o» known. .-■ J ' : ' : - — .-.— " : • ' • ; : ' ! _; ;■ ; '..,■■ '\-

Writes the Woodville of an exchange ;— We had a visit Jfrpm the Governor on Tuesday, but he came very quietly m a 'i twt»hbrge ' waggonette and got into Murphy's hotel oat ibf the rain as quickly as he could. No crowds, I . no guards of ,hpno^ (*xcept, 'the one cdil- i stable we boast of ), no addresses,' no speeches, no boring him, no nothing /at all. In fact; there wasfar Ims interest, taken m the matter than m running m two drunks the night -before. Nearly; the whole township turned out to see: that event, and t<> lend the arresting^onstable a helping hand; , Mistress of herself w«s the spquse ofthe old gentleman , who contrived to tumble off the ferry boat, m to the Sfississippi, and was enoouraged to straggle for dear life by his bettor half shdnting: «• There, 8»mne1 ; didn't I tell von^so ?i Now then, work T^, flap'^pur arms, hold yoafbreath, and repeat th« Lord's Prayer— for its mightyv onsartin, Bamuel, whether you lind iit Vicksbarg or eternity I" The following particulars are given of tne weights of fleeces vt some of the; prize sheep exhibited at the reoent exhibition of the Agricultural. Society m Syd- ! . ney. The shetp were shorn previously to beiogsent baokto'th««tation after the 1 Exhibition :— Aged r«m :Ist prize, and Messrs Harrison, .Tanp- and Deyelin's special ; fleece weighed 1 7^ It?. Agediewe: Ist prizf, fleece wclghot] M\UL Pen(s34 : The hogget ewps,,' winners of Messrs Dalgety and Go.'s special ; weighed respectively 12|1b. The <__ 2-year-old rams weighsd respectivbly 15Jlb and 151 b. i ': -'■'■-„ • ,--. 7- - -f ; W-: "•■■/ f f.rj i