TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1562, 21 November 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FBR JNITBD PRESS ASSPCUTIONiJ „,„ r . Dunbdin, Friday. j- :i Ap the "VVesleyan district meeting a resolution was passed syinp'atb'ising with the efforts being made for thepromotion.of social purity andrecommending a confeTencqtq jwgs legisiiitioh raising tiie age of pinfcQttQQr to females, and making laWs relating: to social immorality more equal iv relation Vthe sexes,* ** f^« Dr Roseby, Congregational minis--6 te'r^ fb*r* tlfe i&st m Dunedin, for Melbourne yesterday, .haying, accepted a call to Ballarat. : " x CHRiSTckuEOH, Friday. At a largely atteifdtfd* meeting 4 of shareholders offhe Southern Crois Pelr^Tetto^omplßW^^Mfl^i^tion was carried almost nhanimdusfy Authorising the Directors to call for orders ar bore#- of ;B,ooJto_^.QQo l feetjJjenyders Mbe latdib^fpsb^J^^gu^ed meeting one month from the present dates?^ r-'/ji/ .«j-,'oPf jtoi-"«effft*! The Thursday Baff-hoffly JesterV 3'ay was Very igenerally^ob^yeds and most of ithejsjiopß^ere^closed. IdOO persons went on., a railway excursion to fKaiapoi. - insiT tnf r , Waof j • ' '^ NBWJfe^fMOOTH^ Friday. } ?In the bankruptcy case of E. L. ' rTumphrieH and' Son 1 , the senior member of tn'e'iate'-'&mY-Mr W. Hum•|thries. refused to answer certain queVtions the Defjuty Offfoikt Assignee asked respe^ting^a promissory note for £2135 16s 9d m his wife's favor, doing; so. pnthe advice of his solicitor. He was accprdiing'y brought bef oj^lbjET '^Tu^l igjP jthe District Court, wjio tol^K^ he would have to answer all q^non^jsjpked, and the case^ was Jidjouri|es;tilmniß morning to ena'ble^bim^kt^ldo f HO. Yesterday .he was" Byainin H 6d| and gavo his evi--dence to thc^B^ißfactla\o T f;tTi| OfficialAAssignee. _G|n the cas© being brougnt lip 4 thig inorniifgy the Judge fiafdi hej^as, glaii tbereiwasinp-necps-si ty now . for committing Humphries, : and ordered that thftvettate should pay- the; Assignee's i oogts, the debtor to pay his own. „ , Auckland, 'Friaay. Mr Mensies, _», publican -from Tan*fanga, iell : off, Qijfljeji T Bteee^ yesterday and,,, wai brother was'jirownea at Tauranga : inla. similar, manner eigji|e(B m mgiths At the annual inr.eting of the Union Oif, Soap,and Qandle, Compauy, the jannaa^ report^ shojre^id^rifjim tOßihtliA/,' year's > .transaction,;, beiidei £167^ oarried^fpjrwari ftom last year ttotCsusptfnse ./aocQtjnt causes of, losa^are the high oost of production during the greater part of the" year, "oausrdby'defectß in«plant r^diprpc^esfsu^e^rereomej^aste arising fromT defedtiveinanbfacture ; de^iaiiou^ tlie^lue.-of tallow, AeajNTi stpoks m hand, and continuous fall- in prices- duringi the > year, and<Bevere competition'