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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1594, 29 December 1885, Page 4

The following chapter of fatalities occurred at Auckland : — James Hart and Joseph Slatter, while fishing at Tairua, were drowned by the capsizing of a boat. Marion Skelton, aged 15, was drowned at Cambridge while bathing. Arthur Fellows, a youth, was trampled to death by a horse at Papakura while catching it. Mi'B Ernsdean fell down stairs and broke her neck. She is supposed to have been under the influence of liquor.

The following regulations have been made r*jspectinj the allowance to armed constabulary when travelling on Govermucnt service: -- Commissioned officers will receive the same rates, and he subject to the smiio conditions as j Civil servants receiving similar salaries. Non-cuinuiissiout'd officers and constables will receive fis n day, and detectives ihoiv actual expenses. A Hokitika teleeratn is as follows : — The Bank of New Zealand tthipuod 247307. of gold of the value of £9900, being their purchases to the end of last week. The Christmas washings are turning out extremely well, tho yield beiii£ fur above the avevairi:. Tlie Monte dOr Company's washing was 2670z. The Greenland Company has declared 4s dividend. Mr John Clare, one of tun best-known men m Liverpool commercial circles, has just died at ru advanced age. Many years ago he was amongst those who suggested the protection of war vessels by means of inni plates, out of which theory the present system of iron ship bnililin : has developed. He uiiid« a claim upon the Government for a sum of about a million sterling as compenaa tion, but nothing came ot it. The Waimato Times gives currency to a report that, by the death of a relative, Mr W. J. Stewart. M.H.R.. has inherited property to the value of i; 20.000. The Wellington College Governors, a£ter discussing for some months the question of disposing of their endowments, have now decided not to dispose of the Jauds either on lease or otherwise. We have again to complain of th« tardy transmission of press message*. An important message for the STANDARD was put into the Wellington offic« at 10.36 a.m., its transmission was finished at 12.4 p.m. and it was finally delivered at 130 p.m. We think this is a case m which the department should make inquiry, with a view to see wheie the fault lies. A lad named Joseph Dodd, aged 13, was drowned yesterday m tho Wellingtoa harbour through a boat capsizing. His compauion named Styles, aged 17, was rescued. The Senate has approved of the Tonquin and Madagascar war credits by large maiorities. Mr Gordon Forlong of Bulls, will preside at " The Escaped Nun's " lecture m Wanganui this evening. The girl Louisa Morrison, who was injured by the Christchurch tramway accident on Sunday, i» dead. There was an extensive fire m West Oxford, near Christchurch, yesterday afternoon. The fire broke out m Shannon's bootraaking establishment, and quickly spread to Reeve's chemist shop, Fisher's store, and Hyland and Woodward's dwelling houses. Woodward had a narrow escape from being suffo cated by the smoke, and the others had difficulty m escaping, little furniture being saved. The bush fires are still 'raging around Oxford, and probably this fire, which was first seen on a house roof, was occasioned by a spark blown from the bush. It is stated ou reliable authority that a responsible syndicate m London will probably take up the contract for the East and West Coast and Nelson railway early m January, inquiries having been made from Berlin about this work. A case of illness from eating tinned salmon is reported from Auckland. It appears that on Friday last an employe of Captain H. Eliott, named Joseph Maiden, partook of somo tinned salmon and has been since suffering from what appears to be the effects of poison, but is slowly recovering. A correspondent (" Insured ") ai»ks the New Zealand Herald, if any of its readers can say when the bonus which should have been declared last June m the Government Insurance office will be payable. We observe that the same question is asked by a correspondent of a Dunedin paper. The Salvation Army's Christmas Congress will be held m Dunedin this year, representatives from various districts m the colony will attend. The Mayor has declared Saturday a public holiday m response to the written request of a large a»d influential number of burgesses. Wanganui is now seriously threatened with a water famine. The carpenters' strike m Auckland has practically ended, the strikers returning to work. Evidence goe« to prov» that the lad Hazelhurst, whose d»ath under suspicious circumstances was recently telegraphed, is the victim of fou) play. His body has been exhumed and examined by three doctors. Portions of th« discoloured fi>«h were preserved tor further examination. The doctors agreed that the dißco]onrations were the results of blows which had caused death. We were glad to see Mr Keeling, our worthy Town Clerk, out again to-day for the first time. He looked anything but strong after his recent protracted illness which obliged him to keep the house for a number of days together. His ailment was partly asthma, to which he is very subject, and partly bronchitis. The weather has been against his more rapid recovery. Our telegram* announce a disastrous fire m Wellington early this morning. If the weather was similar to that here, some idea may be formed of the irresistible fury of the conflagration. Had a fire broken out m the Square to-day the probable results are fearful even to contemplate.