TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1654, 10 March 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Tuesday. The Arawata, for Fiji, took a prisoner named Andrew; Munro, remanded to Suva, charged with larceny .of an order on a Fiji Sugar Company of the value of £120. ■' ■■■"■■'■■/ ' -;- | Timaru, Tuesday. ; Mr Richard Turnbull, . M.H;R., ad-, dressed his' constituents, last night. He stated that he would give support to Government during the present Parliament. He would support borrowing five millions, one aud a half millions of which to go to the East and West Coast Railway. . He would also support prohibition duties on articles which would be manufactured m the Colony. He received, a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. ; Oamarp Tuesday. It haa i been decided to hold a band contest m Qamaru during the Easter Volunteer Encampment. A specially arranged selection is expected from Home by the incoming San Francisco mail, which all competitors will be required to play. - Napier, Tueday. Mr Moore, a chemist at Wai pa wa, was convicted to-day .m the Magistrate's Court of prescribin^^dJKjme and acting as a medical practitioner^ and was fined £10 and costs. Notice of appeal was driven. L v <5l s The Harbor Board tfl^Jay fired an I 8-ton powder mine in'tha Bluff Cliff, tb : make; room for th^ i?brks m connection' with tlie Dreakiwaterr. Fiftylfthousfnd tons of rock and earth were displanced by the explosion, which caused a yibra- : tion m the houses like that produced by an earthquake. .]['" I Gbe^mouth, Tuesday/ ; Xeeterday, as th« "Qftlled Back? 11 ! Company was .coming "into town l>y coach, the hind ( axie broke, m crossing the" ' ■ rails opposite ' the. ' quarry.' The : wheel flew. off, and several of the com-' pany were thrown out on the road; Signor Benvenuti received/a cut on the check, and was rendered partiallyinsensible. Mr Nunn received several contusions, aud all were much shaken. No one else was hurt. t ■"* ■ .•.:-:•:■ .>V-v. '