TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1501, 7 November 1885, Page 2

TEL EGR AMS.

(per united press association.) Christchurch, Friday. The North Canterbury Board of Education resolved yesterday that the holders of scholarships who reside within two miles of a public secondary schqol should . receive .£2O per annum ; within five miles/ .625 ; and beyond five miles, £40. This etnables the Board to give 18 scholarships. , -•■.-. . ! The Hon. E. Richardson left for Wellington by .the Waihora last night. Dunedin, Friday. The contractor of the Harbor Board •was charged at the Police Court with trespassing on Goat Island, and damaging the same by tiring a blast. The Magistrate expressed his opinion that the Minister of Lands had given his permission, but as he was not the proper party to give it, a fine of one shilling was inflicted " ' : ....-.: Invercargill, Fri.daj A correspondent of the Southland Tunes, an experienced digger, writes ;fr<mi.the Merrivale diggings that gold is pwfcty generally distributed. The cold is not water-worn, as previously stated, but Jione yc hmbed reef gold ■ with' qii ar tz leader four inches wide lias been struck at twenty-five feet. It is no place for any but experienced diggers ' with time and capital to do three months' prospecting. .".;..■ I Auckland, Friday. 1 The special services m connection with the jubilee commemoration of the introduction of Christianity into Fiji byithe Messionary Society, for which the Rev. A.. Reid went down by last steamer, passed off most successfully. i ' ; Blenheim, Friday. A boy, two and a half years of age, son, of Mr Matthew.||Doyle, Tua Marina, was drowned m 'i.well yesterday. He .was playing round it and fell m; ■ "i 'Mastebton, Friday. At the first .meeting, of the W airarapa Hospital Bbardi '.hejd this afternoon, after a long-discussion, Mr H. Bunny web elected chairman.