TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1661, 18 March 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(IJSR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Wednesday. The second. anuual ! local meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Land •Mortgage Company, Limited, was hold, to-day. Sir Frederick WhiUker presided. The report and balance- sueet as read at the London .meeting was submitted. 'Messrs S.' Browning, 'G, B. Owed, and J. L. Wijsou was re-elected directors, Tlie three-masted .schooner Waireka; is ashore at South Heads, Hokianga. She will probably be got off. I .....,;■; , Oamabo Wednesday: The Supreme Court sessions were opened to-day by Mr Justice Williams. There were eight cases for heaving, m all of which the Grand Jury brought m true (bills. Alfred Lovegrove, for attempted rape, was sentenced to two years ; Margery Poolo, for ill-treating her child, Edward P/oole, to 12 months V Morton, for enabezzleinentj to- I Wo years; John; Hardy, for larceny, to three years. J A'Cliinartian was sentenced to one {day V imprisonment for obtaining goods on false; pretences! Accused had been iv e;aol for some time.' J. J. O'Nasb, charged 'with robbiry" from tho persbb, was discharged. 7 •;. Nelson, Wednesday. The Maori census returns for Nelson Police district gives the number as 493, being a decrease' of 37 aince the census taken iv 1881. This number reside* m Waimea County, Croixelles, D'UrvihVs. Island, , Kaikoura, and, Colhngwood County. ■::..'.: ; .DttNEbiu; Wednesday. A cablegram Has been received notify* •ing the ' death m Melbourne, from apoplexy, of Robert Ha worth, of Dunedin, a well,-known mining speculator. OhristcSuech, Wednesday. ; The foundation 8ton« of the new Municipal Buildings was laid to-day by .the Mayor, Mr A. Ay res. . .. .