TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1595, 30 December 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(I'EK 3NITKD i*RKSB ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Tuesday. James Hart au\ Joseph Blatter, who j were fishing- at Tairua, were drowned by the capsizing <>t their boat. Admiral Tvron and four officers of the Nelson, iicuniupmicd by Colonel Wiiituiore and Mr Seymour George, proceeded to Cambridge by special train on Sunday en route for the hot lakes, returning next Thursday. The produce stores at Kerikeri have been burnt. They were uninsured. DuxEDtN, Tuesday. Mr Justice Williams presented the medals and certificates of the Hoyal Humane Socictv of Australasia to J. C. Miller, Richard Phelan, and William Potoki. Miller and Phelan swam out to save two high school bo.ys on an island off the Ocean Beach. William Potoki is the Maori who swam m and saved Mrs Morris at Port Molyneux, he husband, the Rev. Mr Morrice, being drowned on the same occasion m trying to save his wife. In making the presentation, his Honor said that Uichard Phelan had already, at different periods, saved six persons from drowning at the risk of his own life, and had also saved a little girl who was m jeopardy from a run away horse. The Premier, m moving a vote of thanks to the Mayor, Mr Justice Williams, and those present, expressed a hope that we should soon establish a New Zealand branch of the Humane Society. A passenger on board the Taranaki, from London, died on the passage out of general debility. His name was F. A Bush. He was a married man, 22 years of age. Seven of the seamen of the ship Waitangi were brought up at th« Police Court charged with embezzling- cargo. The Customs' seal on the hatch had been broken, and a case of Geneva taken out. , As the sailmaker, carpenter, and another were implicated by the statement of one of the prisoners, the case was remanded. An ex-sergeant of police, named James Deane, had his exprets run into by a train, and smashed. He escaped with severe bruiaes. Altogether, ten of the unemployed are now at work. A stable, with the contents, including harness and Fmr valuable horses, the property of Mr Dawson, of Pukeran, was burnt yesterday mornine*. Incendiarism is suspected. Invercahgill, Tuesday.

At Riverton Regatta yesterday, a sculling match took place between Harrington and Boniface, local oarsman, Harrington conceding a minute over a three and a half miles course. Harrington, who it will be remembered lost his chance m a race with ll earn last year over the same course, through fouling a sunken fence, on this occasion broke a scull, and, of course, had to give up. Ho accuses Boniface of being the cause of the accident by fouling him.