TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1587, 21 December 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per united press association.) Auckland. Saturday. . Whitney .and Hazard's cartridge factory, Mount Eden, commenced operations yesterday. Sir G.. W,hitmore, who was present, expressed himself gratified at the completeness 1 of the >rorks. The factory is capable of an output of 6000 cartridges per day. • At the ■ annual . meeting ,of the City Council attempts were made to reduce the' salaries of the Mayor, Town Clerk, and other high officials, but the attempts . were defeated. Arthur Fisher, a youth respectably connected, was committed for trial for alleged passing counterfeit coin. Ashburton", Saturday. A boy named John Curd was thrown from his horse last evening. He was dragged some distance, and when picked up was still breathing, but died within half an hour. Dunedin, Saturday. An application for a writ of Habeas Corpus m the case of Michael John Crow, committed at Invercargill by Judge Ward, came before Judge Wil- ■ Hams yesterday. Mr Hacgitt, for the Crown, contended that the Court could not enter into an inquiry as to what had taken place m the District Court, but only on what appeared on ibe face of the warrant. Since th« rule was made a second order had been filed, Mr Reilly contended that a man could not be punished for a criminal offence when giving evidence. The Judge reserved his decision. At the breaking tip of the Christian Brothers School, Bishop Moran stated that he was anxious that the pupils of the school should present themselves at the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University.