TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1607, 13 January 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

(DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) • Auckland, Tuesday. A Maori girl near Kaori, aged seven, was drowned while bathing iii the Punu. Subscriptions are coining m freely for the relief of the sufferers by bush fires at Taranaki. At the Supreme Court civil sessions •Ethel Lublin, a barmaid, received £50 damages for false imprisonment from Herman Obbe. The claim was for Mr Lewis E. Gen," Austrian Consul, stationed at Leon, 'Nicaragua, Central America, who was a passenger" by the mail steamer, intends making a tour of the colony after visiting the Lake Country. Wellington, Tuesday. The Governor will not arrive here before Thursday morning, when he will pay a visit to Admiral Tyron on board H.M.S. Nelson. At the B.M. Court this afternoon Frank McDowell »as charged with having, at Blenheim, stolen and converted to his own use certain lots of clothing and drapery of a total value of £676, the property of .James McDowell. He was further charged with having between the sth and 17th of last November embezzled a large amount of money belonging to James McDowell by whom he was employed. After the prosecutor's evidence was taken the case was adjourned until j to-morrow. Bain, which is much needed, fell this afternoon, but the weather is now clearing up. The proprietors of the Evening Post have sent to the 'secretary of the Stratford Belief Fund a draft for £100, which is the first instalment .of, tha amount collected. Timaru, Tuesday. The long wanted rain is now falling steadily, with a prospect of continuing. The district so far came through wonderfully well. A man named Lawrence was thrown from a dray this afternoon, which passed over him, crushing his ribs and breaking his collarbone. His wife was also somewhat injured.