TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1629, 8 February 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

('united press association*.) Auckland. Saturday. A motion was discussed by the City Council for discontinuing the use of the present cemeteries by (instead of digging graves) erecting a systematic succession of concrete vaults or cells m which to deposit the dead. It was lost. The city 'valuation shows an increase on rateable property of £45,000. Samuel (3-arlick lias been committed for receiving valuable securities, knowing them to be stolen. Bail was allowed.. , „-..,. Dunedin, Saturday. ; i Theiproject of starting a Nurses' and Invalids' Home has fallen through. rCuBiSTCHUBCH, Saturday. The HomE. 'Richardson speaks at Rangiora on Tuesday evening next. ' Mr C. E. Briggs, who for ten years has held the oosiiion of managing direc- ' •tor and secretary to the Kress Co., has j resigned his office. . At a meeting of the Garrison Library Colonel Lean stated that the Hon. J. Ballance had. promised to place on the estimates a sum sufficient for the purchase of a rifle range for the Volunteers here, v. 10 have hitherto been much inconvenienced for the want of a good range. ', ' j. . <i; -Greymouth, Saturday. A'boy of sixteen, iPamed Evans, was dirowned at ft'runnertou, Greiy River, yesterday 4 , He. . ; ,cpnld „not t swim, and walked nut, of Kis depth. The' body has since been found by diving. ;