TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1665, 23 March 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITBiD PRESS ASSOCIATION)**^ • Auckland, Monday. A woman named Slator, the wife of a gamaigger, has been- found drowned at Biverhead. • - - ■ . A man named Thomas Mitchell attempted suicide at Helehsville by jumping off the wharf but was rescued: Ho made a similar attempt about a week" ago, and has been drinking. The (xerm'ari Clnb and other German residents celebrated Emperor William's birthday with a banquet. ■' i „Ac a meeting, of drapers' employes re Thursday half holiday, it was determined ♦o give it a further trial. Dunedw, Monday. ; The libel action, Stead v.Epydhouse and another, is to be heard here on Wednesday. * : . A meeting of the shareholders m the Keep-it-Dark Company was held to-day> at which the Chairman stated he had telegraphed to the legal ' manager ai Keefton, requesting full, particulars rei garding certain alleged deficienQies the duplication of scrip. The only tejeeram jbe bad receiyed m. reply bearing iipon the matter was to th^efteot $hai; the directors would make up ajl d6fioU . woiei. The meeting adjotirlied uritrl tol mnrQvp mmins, •.'■.•-•;.? '■-* :-;..;

'aEThe^fPttimrer nrrived- here from the North this^evening. An was lfiade tb Mr Justice "WiUliains|to-dky f6r^ the atidulmf nt. of ali*order>adjudicating- Golinun Burke a 'bankrupt. The order, was made by the regwtray^ pn % the petition of G. W, E|liot| a creditor^ who has ah equity 'suit pending with Bnrke. His Honor, after arffimient, annulled the adjudication.