TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1494, 30 October 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

Chribtchuroh. Thursday. A little. girL two years old, daughter of jVir Dayiii Banker, of Feudaiton^^AYasj drowned m a fish gpmTto-ilay m Jront ofj her father's house. ' " I WEtLiKCtfoN, Thursday. I Pj >-.- ''■ - ■• ■: .' '- v ' At the Divorce Court to-day decrees absolute -'.wer&^'grtmted m the. cases of Win. Arthur Smitti v. Alice v v§inith and G. A. Strike, !and^Ma*y ifanfeO'Klan v.i James Grey. . f w ! ,6Mr>A; j. Hl'ltt6w*is gazetted Assistant; Under- Secretary- for; the Public Works! Departiineiit. -a '.<r>.& A -':-.* .| ■ , • t The entiiea .for the Wairarapa, Agri- j .cultural Slv^v are- very numerous, ~ <agdj exceed those of last year by JOOi. :- x ;* j The Byan perjury case; has : broken I down, and the inforination dismissed. The Hon. Mr Buckley is Rapidly xm- , proving m health. j „r „ Ddnedin, Thursday. ■ . At a annual meeting of the CaledoHian \ Society, during a discussion on the! balance-sheet, it was-stated that it was j prettyj qertaiu , that; defalcations on, ,'ihe ! part of the secretary amounted to about j £1200.| f They " extended 6 ver soine yda'rs. The secretary is at present m the - Lunatic Asylum. The next meeting is| expected to be a prosperous one, as from comfminications received some of thb I best athletes from Australia are ex- : ■pdctc ! d. ;; ' ' "..''■'..' "' l : .' ; : A ! " Maori, chief named Waitotp died, to- j day, ageci 92. ,He belonged, to the IStel- ' son district, wliere he held a higli ta,nls j but wasytaken^to the Bay :-of rpknds as i prisoner m the native war. After some 1 seafaring: experience! he joined tfaqye^iel \ which brought out the first settlers . to ' 1;, -*' '■ <; , .;■ ■■ i1 ' 1 ■■•• l : ' lun i