TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1612, 19 January 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION..) , ..,jii "? i Donbdin, Monday. Apprehensions of a water famine, are felt here. U«^V *■* »v:. <\ V Christchuroh, Monday. Howard fKts Howar^.and the Godfreys were nrnugh't up' at the R.M. Court on Saturday .tnorning for the, purpose of being fb'rni'ally' reitn'aiide'd' 1 to' Monday. Mr Joynt, Howard's counsel, obtained a turthet Remind' id the ! 25'th ; January, as he is engaged uvtbe'SupreineCourt. • i A heavy ihower t jOjejli; *6h;l Saturday!', morning, but the weather is clearing again. j . 'io';;; 1 I ;*!(»,' t Grettown, Monday. Mr Buchanjan, sffHj.B>J-met[his(Gfeyr, town -constituents on Saturday night.' | There was a! laree and influential'audience. A vote of thanks, and confidence was carried unanimously/ , ' ■ (> (&reyj>ioij.th, Monday. A vory largely attended ■, publio tneeting wasjield fan, Saturday night to consider the question of the unemployed m tliis 1 locality.! Several resolutions were 'passed to the ieffect that wor.k should Jot* f prqyide/t J. or \ the' unemployed ' m: toWn j that*tne Hjinbor Board 'and other local bodiek should! be requested to undertake works to absorb ther unemployed labor* , ,and that failing their doing so application be made fto the Government. ■■ s., »•■•■■ j {' ' i ''■'■<■'< '■ ■-<,;• : ' ' ■ '■ * * '*'' i ■'" A'tfCKLXND.* Monday. ' Dry weather still continues! though a slight shower of rain fell on Saturday forenoon . The wiiid I has i shifted ,- I froni i north-east Jo 'south-west. , „. ;, .About inidpighti a .brawl occurred jn Tipper Queenistreet, when a street lamp, an hotel lamjp, ! and sodie, , windows 'of ' sjiijpsj.wer^junasli'ed by'a uiob'qf larri- ; icinsT "Several arrests were made by the police,' after a good deal of resistance. ; . An outhoujsp, the/ property, 'of Mr A/ , Board tnan, rox Ponsonby, was burned, dovra on'Sunaay morning.,, ;The loss was . trifling. j „';/.'"!;' ..';,;,..•"'= \,;> ,; ; . { V u\ ' i f : Boss, Monday., v , The prospectors subsidised by the.Go-i yerninent forjdriving'theclow-levelitunf nel at'Cedai; Creek /expect: tp^cutjthe, reef shortly.! Three: v feet_ ( of, . auriferous reef have been laid' bare m the Band of Hope Company for a distance of 44 -feet.---* ? .- {