TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1678, 7 April 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

. ♦ (UNITED PBESB ASSOCiATION) Auckland, Tuesday. At the Auckland Presbytery a resolution was carried protesting, against any compromise by the Imperial Government permitting France to take posses* sion of the New Hebrides Islands. Messrs McArthnr and Co. objected to tli3 proprrty tax valuation ot their warehouse m Queen-street at £30,800, intithat they thought £20,800 a fair The Deputy Commissioner stated tJTaTr-ttutjjovernmebt would take it at the GnvermrißTrt^Bsessor's valuation, with 10 per cent. aaftjjikLjFhe case was adjourned till to-morrow. /^^^^^ Arthur Hemmett, who recently ar^r rived from the South, was found ill m the street, and died « few Jiours after ad tn ission. Dr Moore stated that death r-sulted from, exposure and hunger. Hemmett has a brother m Christchuroh. , ■Welliktoton, Tuesday,. ,' \ In response to a requisition sighed by the leading citizens, Sir Julias Yogel has decided to address a public raeetipg' m Wellington on political- questions.^ Tbft d»te is not yet determined upon. ■ -' A Wanganui settler named Grant today recovered jndgrnent .against tbe. New Zealand Shipping Company for £23 16s, the value of a portmanteau and parc-l attached, delivered "at the,€om-: patiy's shed, Albert docks, and lost on tho way. It was shown .that a deer-. skin forming part of the parcel, had been appropriated by one of the ship's compauy. ; Christohubch, Tuesday. 1 The Supreme Court sat till 9 o'clock last niglit. Henrich Meblhaulf was convictt-d of manslaughter, and ordeied too me up for sentence on Monday. He r«(ls against a vehicles on the Lincoln road, and a child inthejtrap was thrown out and killed. James Jones for fen unnatural offence was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. James Hamilton, charged with false pretences, was acquitted.