TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1688, 19 April 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united pee»B association ) 1 Chbistchubch, Saturday. At a meeting of the Oanterburg Bdgby Union, held last niarht, a letter was received from the Sydney Rushy Union asking what support" would be given to m New South Wales football team visiting this Colony. It was decided to guarantee £60 toward the expenses if a match was played m Christchurch. It is m contemplation to hold a grand demonstration m Hagley Park to cel«--brate the receipt of the news respecting the West Coast Railway.- Mr C. C. Bowen, Chairman of the guarantors, hai cabled home to Mr Alan Scott, for details of the contract made with th« Syndicate. Auckland* Saturday. Samuel Morrin, an old Auckland identity, is dead. James Oscar Walahe, husband of Mr* Walshe, who was arrested on Sunday on a charge of absconding from her creditors m Blenheim, has been apprehended onfa similar charge, and admitted to'bau. ; p The body of Johanna Binning, wife of ;a: slauglitermSn, was found floating m tH^barbor yeijterday uiorhing. She ha* bean .ia a .desponding Biate of mind for sotrie'days, jfhe cause being th^e arrest for 'm an^ ad opted i' daughter. On Thursday'Mih'tsb^.threatened to drown herself, v-'At the ingueat a. verdict was ..returned of found "drowned. The body was^ -svfttboafr Marks' <& u Violence. Lat'terlyishevwas shqwmg'lugns of derange* 'nteht. ' ' '.^.l'< •'■:•:■,> A man .named] John Doyle died sud;derilsr': tft l irew Nprth Road. Itissuppoaed'to^b'e a casejof 4 p_oißoninsr. „ iiuNfiDiWj- Satut'dav. .. ..'.Thft Mayor yesterfiiS^-receiyed adepu.titilon to whp.m he 'promised to convene a public meeting for raising subscription* ior'the relief of the families of those lost m the Taiaroa. '.:,,' - The Chamber of Commerce hag called on the Government' to direct the Agentattention to misrepresentations 'll^^heJyOtagb ? Wpol Growers' Company iprbs^e^^ai^bnn«mg :^ on tho of the colony.