TELEGRAPHIC BUDGET

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1562, 21 November 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC BUDGET

KBpecial to this Standard \) I -* 4 'I \ ■ C /Ajpiim^etine of 4h6 ] Wanganui Gold Prospecting pompahy last night a telegram was received fr'oni Doddy Bros. Btating they would accept the Company's offer; 30s a week, and were goute into Bangiototo to-day. Shaieholders v a,greed to pay 2s 6d weekly to keep them there for a time. ...Press Association of Wellington wire sayihg^that the position of the New Zealand Rifle Association is somewhat doubtful, but there are strong grounds for believing that the Governin»nt have agreed to take over the liabilities. In a letter to Captain Somerville, the Defence Minister stutes it is desirable the association should be managed as at Home without Government having auy responsibility or control. The Auckland Ministers Association opposed the proposed bye-lav/ regulating the street processions, and the City Council have abandoned the idea. No magisterial enquiry is to be held into tho Wailu-Mohaka collision. The nomination of the horses Libeller and Tedford have beenaccep'ted for the •'i\i^^llington!Gup\and R.C* Handicap it Veirig* shown that the; horses were entered by telegram three days before closing time, but by an error m the * telegraph department the: telegram was incorrectly addressed . .v. The Ministers of Dunedin have passed, a resolution sympathising with the ■Social Purity tnovement. In SyVlhey New Zealand w"heat has advanced to 3s 3d, and New Zealand pats to 2s 3d.