TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Wellington, Monday. The Imperial Government have made a present to the colony of eight converted 64 pounders received from Home soole time ago. Tuesday. The racehorse Billy which was hurt m t lie Herctftunga Handicap at the Hutt meeting had to be shot. The vDunedin Star states that the Wool Growers Company's prospectus has been withdrawn from the London market. Robert Bathgate, one of the crew lost m the Taiaron, leaves a wife aud six children m Glasgow. Wanganui, Tuesday. The divorce case, Roberts r. Roberts and Wilks is proceeding. ItlSßobne, Tuesday. A man named J. Clayely, died from injuries supposed to have been received winle riding; one horso and leading another. He was evidently dragged off )ii3 horse by the other one into the river and stepped on by one of the animals, Auckland, Monday. The Auckland Railway returns for the year are highly satisfactory. There has been a steady increase m all branches of the traffic. The New Zealand Smelting Company decline to recommend La Monte furnace Dcfing taken over, as during the trial run it had failed to attain the guaranteed results. . Donedin, Saturday. It is understood that the Waimea Plains Railway Company have refused the offer of Government to purchase tlio line, on the gronad that the offer would result iv a loss to the shareholders.