TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) CuttiSTCHURCH, Monday. < Mitchell, whose carpet factory was burned on 3rd April, was arrested on Saturday charged with arson- Ho was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court and remanded. The Mayor has received a telegram from Sir Julius Yogel advising him to wait till the West Coast Railway contract is signed before holding the demonstration. The hands at Suckling Brothers' boot factory have struck, because the firm would not rein«tate a benchmari whom they dismissed, and who, the men suppose was dismissed on account of his beng a prominent member of Operatives' Societies. Donediv, Monday. The Coptic brings a large consignment of fancy poultry for the Wellington Association. The funerals of the chief officer, Mr Monkman, and Morrison, the fireman of the Taiaroa, which took place on Saturday, were largely attended, the Druids, of which Morrison was a member, mastering strongly. About the same time a military funeral took place, the Volunteers attending the funeral of Mr Mortland, of the City Guards, who died from a rupture he received m a tug-of-war at tie recent snorts. This Parliamentary Union was opened on Friday evening by the Hon. G. McLean, as governor, Sir Win. Fox being present. Auckland, Monday. Robert Fitzroy Bolton, a well-known commission agent, appeared before the Police Court on a charge of inducing Hudson Williamson, Crown Prosecutor, to endorse a promissory note for £200, with intent to defraud. Bail of £500 was accepted. A man named "William Robert Doyle was poisoned through taking carbolic acid as a sleeping draught. He had been drinking. Robert Featherstone, a guihdigger, has been committed on a charge of incendiarism at Tokatoka. Blenheim, Monday. Mr Vallance's body was buried at Flaxbourne on Friday, the Rev. S. S Grace, of Blenheim, reading the service. Mr Vallance's brother and Mr Mason, his late partner, were present. There is no further news from the wreck. No more bodies have been recovered. Grant and McQuarter reached here on Friday night, where they remain, under instructions from the Government, until McQuarter, who is stilt suffering from the night's adventure, isjyrell enough to travel. Every attentiojipo the wants«of the survivors has been shown by the Government and the Union Company..