TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1678, 7 April 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

.. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION) Auckland, Monday. Mr-jor Atkinson leaves to-morrow for tiie >n>nlb. He will probably speak first Cl D inedin. : . 'i ue hands of ali the main boot facto ics are now out on strike. . . A number of Native chiefs are m to.v.i, including Taonni Hetere, Te Para ;•, aid Ngakuru, who hare not been m :\ icUland, since the war of 1863. iifcy have been subpoenaed or ium* tun uA as defendants or witneises m a < >v tial libel raised by Mr Fraser, Nat'.vo pj;ent. ■ 1' <ie City South licensing election hwi ugbii declared void. Dunediv, Monday. At (he City Council meeting the gai eu^i.iesr submitted a report practically - fMin.Miitig to.ia recommendation- that liio \>. iiole works, which he described ai tic /recent arranged m a *' higgledyjv.i.iedy" mauner, be rebuilt, and ha e •■ = :»y<eß the present cost of leakage at I'vn boys who have ran away from lite I :<hi3trial School are supposed to i)ivii»:|);oken into a house at, Mosgiel, '.Viio c they took some silver and helped -iirwoelvea to food. . V Ciituauian, name unknown, commit-'-d : licide by hanging m Maclaggau s om{ tii is morning. Tlio Government has been experienciii^cousiderable difficulty m getting m i .ie rents due by pastoral tenant!. Chbistchubch, Monday. Tiie 1 Rev S. Macfarlane,. missionary r.-ora New Guinea, delivered a leqtur* iteie to night to a large audience. He denecated settlement at present, bat srviil l ii at" the interior of the country biioii ; ti be thoroughly explored ; and he wMs (.'onviiiced that a profitable trade w ii -the Natives might be carried on m cftwav, sago, and beche de raer. A I >:■ iich of the London Missionary Sc— i o.fi .-, nuder whoso auspices Mr Macfarhvi^ts laboring, was formed at theineetiJ/S- "• Hoeitika, Monday. Tiie Ross United Company's minehae btoj : > ninped out and the men sent be* lo.v <i ,?.in. The pumps have drained (112 v.-o-ka m the unpredecented .- short (.invn? three dayß, and are working B;>{jmJMly. . , Ii s raining heavily, and- the daraa ;uul races throughout the district are f:ui. • •'■'.■' Masterton, Monday. On ibe night of Thursday, Ist April, Ino s.iCks of wheat, one stack of oatf, oiKO eshed, five bags of ./wheat, and * I. 'resiling machine, with tarpaulins, «ko, cl lea Station, were destroyed by fire. it is supposed to be a' case of incendiar* ism, Hawera, Tuesday. ■ A. stable at the rear of O'RieUy'i Holei was burnt to the ground this -morn* in<*. The origin of the fire is unknown* Tiie tinilding was insured m the Phoenix for £50, but the contents were'uninsured. ' New Plymouth, Tuesday. A laage meeting was held at Inglawood last night on the harbour ioan qtinsilon, when a resolution iv favor of "io owing £100,000 was carried by an nl most unanimous vote of those present. . "■