TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1565, 25 November 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(fur jnited press association.) Ddnedin, Tuesday. In a squabble which took place on the Orari, at the wb/arfj on Saturday, between some sailors, another who interfered was wounded m Ihe forehead. As the wound is not serions, and tha assailant was tlruhk, he was let off with a fine. At a meeting of grocers? assistants it was resolved to endeavor to secure a half.holiday during the week!. 1 ' Mrs Gordon, wife of a postmaster at North Taieri, by stepping off the wrong side of a train at Mo^giel ~ fell, and the train passed overboth hands, which will necessitate amputation of at least one arm. In veroargill, Tuesday. . The Argus, .Age, and r Telegraph Specials all state that Mr "Stead was sentenced to three months' imprisonment instead of three years, and Mr Jacques to one month's instead of a year, as telegraphed direct Sir Richard ''Cross* ' Has Issued - anf *dVder that Mr Stead *IlaU be treated as a first class misdemeanant X A big fire took" place on Castle Rock estate onSuuday afternoon. A. ten-stalled stable, with chaft^ harness, &c;, and a stock of ten'' tons of i atg, were destroyed. . They were the property of Mr Robert Si iclair. No cause is assigned. Christchurch, Tuesday, " Mr W. J. G. Bluett, a well-known ! auctioneer and cattle breeder at Lees* ton, and at one time M.U.8., died last night. At the adjourned meeting of the North Ganterb try aud Ashborton Charitable Aid Board yesterday, a dis ;u!ib*i<m. took place on the point raised at Auckland as to the Boards powers. It was decided, to go on. with the business, the Board being of opinion that it had power to levy contributions, as if it had not it was virtually powerless, to? do the work for which, it was formed. ; Auckland, Tuesday. I Further details of young Hingston's ' death show that he was stung on th© forehead twice by a bee, and m the evening, while talking with his friend Mr Ft»rd, he dropped down, and shortly afterward expired. Dr \Vatliii}j[. certilied that death was from blood poisoning through the sting of a bee. Masterton, Tuesday. The severe frost on ? Sunday mbrniug did an enormous amount of damage to the potatoes and fruit. - ; The leases of the Wellington Corporation endowment m the Mangahao Block, Forty-mile Bush, was sold by Lowes and Irons on Saturday. Erery section found a purchaser, the annual rent varying from Is 6d to 4s 6d per year per acre. _