TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1492, 28 October 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(FIR mTID PKEBI ASSOCIATION.) ' ' . „ Waipaw,A', Tuesday. .•■..'■','»". ••••-■ ,At the inquest on the bodyjcof .-. Peter Christira Wiederug, who wu killed >at Tahoraite by » fall of eath, a >erdujt of accidental death ■wm returned. The other man; Nielaon, is said to befecoverr, mg from his injury. . .'■■■■*'• t'- '■ ■'-.■;■ ■■■■: Dciou^, Tuesday. ; At the mquest on the boy Adams, a Terdict of accidental death was return? cd. The--, evidence /showed . that" the wound which cansed death was made by an, iron spike attached to a peg tethering a cow. A boy named Mahon admitted that the peg struck the deceased while he was swinging it round his head, the deceased' haying come up behmdhiin. Medical evidence sfyw.ed that the blow must have been very severe, as it had penetrated oyer 4in. r ; ;. . ' Invwoabqiix, Tueaday ih Maxwell, GeneraT Manajter. of Bailwayf, bts arrired ber© to inquire into the t»riff que«ti»n« that are agitatingoommereia) circle*.Ohbistchuech, Tuesday. The editorial and news departmerit of ■ the Lyttelton; Tune* office was lit up\.J>y the Golcher electric light to-night." The. intUUation, which has been made, by Meura Myles and Co., includes a Very ample storage system for the utilisation of waste engine power. . Mr Henry Mataon, head of the firm of Matson and Co., stock and station agents is dead, aged 72. He acted, as Harbonflaster at Georgetown, Tasmania, m 183J5, and m that capacity he clewed oat Batman's party on their proceeding to colonise Victoria. Mr - Mateon came to Canterbury m 1862. , ' ' At a meeting of the Committee of the : East and West Coast and Nelson Bailway, Leagme held to-day, it wasreaolved that the League recommend eo-6peration between the people of Canterbury,' ' Wesdand, and Nehwn to secure the conrtrnction of the line by the Gbrernment sirnul aneously with the Northern Trunk and Otago Central; and advocate the extension of the membership ot the League to all parts of the Colony, with a yiew of securing political support to those members who will adyocßte the completion of the Trunk Railway system, and the subsequent cessation further borrowing for public worka until the whole railway system has become selfSUppOlting. . .>!',]iJry+\--~.; ■ ,;V ' .i\ Gbktmouth, Tuswday. The weather still looks unsettled; and the colliers are ,uUe owing to. eyerytrwk being full of coaL *' . „ . >;,!. :> Blenhew, Tuesday. At the inquest on tee body; of the lad Oswald Winstanley, who was accident ally shot by his brother, the' evidence showed that the lock of the. carbine was defective, and caused it to go off at halfcook. The carbine belonged to the Defence Department, and is supposed to have been regularly inspected. The Coroner's jury added no rider to their verdict. Nklson, Tuesday. Mr Hursthbuse addressed his con■tituenlsat JJpper Mputere on Friday last. He received a vote of confidence. .