TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1690, 21 April 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

' (DNITBD PRESS ABBOCIATION ) Auckland, Tuesday. Tne Haorakiu have declined a challenge of the WaiteinatnS for another match at £200 a side, but will meet the Waiteraatas next regatta. * • Wellington, Tuesday. Mr J. P. Firth, first assistant of the * W«lliftgt6n College, has accepted a position in Christ's College, (Christchureb.y The Go-Ahead, which arrived from the .south this afternoon, went close to thVwggpk.of the Taiaroa to land Captain Stroogjjwlio is to superintend the salvage operations. Toe waven were breaking right over the stern of the 111- - *fated vessel; . Wednesday. At a meeting" of the City Council the Mayor in presenting the annual report - paid the estimated expenditure for the . year waR £52,968, receipts £50,294,leav*intfa^ebit balance of but a greater part of this was overdraft of the previous year. He hoped the Council next year would observe rigid economy, and that they would thus ,be_ able to congratulate themselves on their position. ' Blenhetm, Tuesday. . Mr Conplly, M.H.R., addressed the | electors of Picton last night. He opposed the Ministry and its policy, and follows Major Atkinson. Mr Connolly received a vote of thanks. - Dunedis, Tuesday. Donald Keith, the shepherd who accompanied^, the postmaster Dtwar in his recent ntffortunate trip into the interior, has died near Martin's Bay. The official Assignee recovered in the District Court to-day £103, and £60 paiij by White, the bankrupt, to his wife -^ within about 10 days of filing. \ * : Airieelihjgr was held to devise means to relieve the distress caused by the • wreck of the Taiaroa. Only five cases of distress were mentioned.