TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1643, 24 February 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■ ■ # (l ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunediv, Tuesday. The Sydney bowlers have declined to visit this colony this season. .Nearly 20 Volunteers leave for Wanganui on Wednesday. The Clutha Rifles send a strong team. An unusual claim for insurance was heard at the District Court. Plaintiff, a musician, rented a room from defendant and as he wished to have goods m the room insured he consulted his landlord, and the latter stated that he had a margin of £500 with the Equitable, and plaintiff could insure within that margin. Plaintiff accordingly paid a premium, and getting further goods insured them also. A fire occurred, by which plaintiff's goods were damaged, and he claimed £200 therefor, The defence was that plaintiff did not insure the goods nor pay premium, and for further defence that the goods were not of the value alleged. Judge Ward refused a nonsuit, and gave "judgment for plaintiff for £127 and costs. Twenty-eight Volunteers have entered from Otago for the Rifle Association meeting at Wanganui. Chbistcjudhch, Tuesday. Yesterday morning the Mayor, on be^half of many leading inhabitants of. Canterburj 7 , presented Mf F. Back, Traffio Manager of Railways, who is leaving for Tasmania, with a cheque for £300. In replying to the toast of his health, Mr Back expressed an opinion that within ten years, under careful management, the railways of New Zealand would be the best paying railways m the world, Paddy Dunn, William, Noble, and Charles Hinney, three of the men who, the police assert, have recently oome from Sydney, and have the reputation of being sharpers, were fined £2 each at the Police Court yesterday morning for damaging property m a house of illfame. They were under the impression they had squared the matter by {paying the proprietress, but the police took the matter up. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received' the following, message from London, dated Feb. 2Xst j— R.M.S, Ruapehu arrived (all well) at Plymouth yesterday, with frozen meat m good contention. The Rangitikei sailed for Bluff and Tiinara, and the Allan Shaw for Auckland. Miss Georgie Smithson delivered a lecture last night on the West Coast Bailway to an audience of upward of 2000 persons m the Tuam-street Hall, The Mayor of Christchurch presided, Tho lecture, which consisted of a reiteration of the arguments formerly used* m favor of the construction of the line, was very well received, and a hearty vote of thanks passed to the lectures* Hokitika, Tuesday. Good wash has been struck m the main, shaft of the Ross United Gold, Mining Company. Auckland, Tuesday. Mr Cadman, M.H.R., met the Mer-. cury Bay portion of his constituency on Saturday evening. The meeting was j one of the largest ever held m the Bay. 1 A vote of thanks and confidence was 1 unanimously given to Mr Cadman. Mr Carter's store at Mangapai was burned down. It was insured for £1250 m the North British Company. A representative meeting- of Roman Catholics was held to arrange a fitting reception to Cardinal Moran. Invebcabgill, Tuesday. At the Police Court yesterday, a baker ■ained Kenneth McKinnon was sentenced to two^ months' hard labor for having, while drunk, assaulted an. old gentleman at the railway station. Thos. Spence, aged 18 years, was committed tor trial for a criminal assault on Clara Butler, a girl a^ed'ej'even years and four months. JJe&sojr, Tuesday, The inquest on the body of Hollyman, whose death resulted from the collapse of the Nile- street bridge, was continued yesterday, and lasted all day. The evidence of one expert blames the Inspector and workmanship ; that of Mr Akersten finds fault with the design and manner m which the bridge was allowed to be erected. The inquest stands further adjourned till Thursday. Oabterton, Tuesday. At tho Licensing Oommittee elections on Saturday, the tgmperanee party did not succeed m returning one candidate., Both sides worked hard. Gisborne, Tuesday. A man named Mullane was sentenced to a month's hard labor, and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for six months, for striking the editor of a local paper a violent blow m the 1 ' face as he was walking along the street reading a paper. pleaded that the paper had commented' on the P,arne}l |party, but really he was instigated by a third party who has a grievance against the paper.