TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1601, 6 January 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united pkkss association..) Auckland, Tuesday. The tramways carried during December 113,704 passengers, 40,000 being during the holidays. • Over .£35,000 passed through the totalizator at the Auckland Summer Meeting. Dunedin, Tuesday. i It is stated that the position oP mana- , ger of the Dunedin agency ot the Government Life Insurance Association, at a salary of £1000, has been offered to Mr Henry Driver, formerly M.H.R. Mr Clapcott has been offered and accepted the position of Chief Lecturing Agent for the Colony. A deputation waited on the Minister of Mines, asking for assistance to prospect by providing for transit of provisions. Mr Larnach said that the Government were willing to assist genuine I prospecting, and would srant the aid asked for. The deputation was from In • vercargill, and stated that four men were prepared to resume prospecting. The trial of the Evening Press libel action has been fixed for March 23rd. Mrs Stuart Hawthorne, widow of a late rector of the High School, makes an appeal for assistance from Christchurch, where she and her family are on the verge of starvation. Some-jewellery and ostrich feathers, brought' by passengers from the Cape by the Kaikoura, were to-day seized by Customs officers. Mastebton, Tuesday. , The police on Saturday visited the dressmaking establishments, and 'found a number of girls employed after hours. Several prosecutions will follow.