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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1602, 7 January 1886, Page 4

The Me i oo u rue wharf labourers 1 strike BtiH.continues, and men m lai'ge numbers are being .brought from Adelaide and Newcastle, to take the place the strikers. ' : ! A Rangoon cablegram states that General Prendvrgast has taken steps to .crush the bands of marauders who are keeping Mandallay m a state of terror. ■ The accounts from all parts of the country of ravages by bush fires are most distressing, No such visitation ! has previously occurred that we can remember. In many cases the poor unfortunate settlers are both homeless 'and penniless. A girl named Agnes Moran has been committed for. trial at Waipawa, for manslaughter of her illegitimate child. Taueru near Mastertoti, is surrounded by bush fiaes, and the bridge and are iv great danger. It is said that the" big s wamp." has caught on fire, which was the cause of the dense smoke prevailing to-day. If this report is correct the fire may smoulder for months, and do an infinite amount of damage. ; " : iTh,e. Railway DeDartment were to-day taking^ steps to repair the very unsightly and highly dangerous fence adj acent to the railway station. It is almost amiracle that serious accident to life or limb has not occurred at the placo m question before now. It was a source; of peril to strangers, particularly after nightfall.,. • „ A stabbing case has oocurred at Invercaigill through two men quarrelling when on a drinking boat. '' * By latest accounts the bushfires around; Masterton and Ormondville are causing serious apprehensions, the latter town especially being m imminent danger . of total destruction. Bayard has been scratched for the Wellington Cup. Ah Get got a year m Wellington for concealing a portion of his bankrupt estate. . A jeweller's shop m Blenheim has been broken into, and two. suspected parties arrested. Soirie of the booty has been discovered m an -adjacent outhouse. '■"■ A shop and dwellinghouse iniphrist- :- church were destroyed^by fire yesterday, and a similar occurrence took place m Auckland early this morning. Almost every telegram now received relates to fires,