TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1637, 17 February 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(l ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; :•..■•:: Auckland, .Tuesday . Sir Julius Jogel will address the citizens on February 23. Reference was made In various churches on Sunday to the coming Licensing elections. i: '' . At the morning session of the Presbyterian General Assembly a motion respecting the condition and prospects of Presbyterianiam was referred to a committee .composed of the Revs Messrs Sidey, Somerville, and Patersou, and Mr Erwen, for their report. An overture from Auckland Presbytery on the. training of students was referred to the Presbyteries for consideration. As tents could not be supplied by Government for the Easter encampment, it has been abandoned. . ' Tjmaru, luesday. Four valuable stacks of wheat, the property of -Mr Win. fiudd, near Win- : cheater, ; were ! totally destroyed, by fire last night: They weye insured m the Utijon ofjjce, but the amount is unknown. Incendiarism is suspected.. ' '*' Punbdin, Tuesday. The temperance people intend holding aj monster open-air meeting to m ftuence the licensing elections. Cardinal Morau leaves for Christchurch this morning. IJe wij) be accompanied by 'the Bishops of Adelaide, Maitlaud, Wellington aud Auckland. Two young , men were charged to-day with robbing. a man named , Fitzpatrick of a silver watch and chain while he was asleep m the cricket ground. The collection at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday amounted to £1650. ■'■■■■ ''■ ; : Mrs Marshall, who received some severe burns. at a receot firo, died m th«i Hospital to-day. : „.,-.. ..'. Mastebton; Tuesday. A verdict of accidental death was returned .at the inquest on- Thomas Conelly,. James Burko is expected to recover: m about a week. ' ,