TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1694, 28 April 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

1 (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION) Duneduc, Tuesday. A man named McConrtick, who wtf injured at Lawrence by a fall of earth, died on Sunday. He leavos a wife and fire children. Nelson, Tuesday. ■. Monday was observed as a general holiday, and the first cheap excursion on the railway wai a great success, all the rolling stock being necessary to coavey tlie pasaengeis, and then there wai ndt standing room. v Chbistchubch, Tuesday. A temperance demonstration: was held m Hagley Park to-day m connection with the Canterbury Band of Hop* Union. About 1500 child ran were present, and with other visitor* the gathering m the Park aimmnted to nearly 4000 persons. The body ot a fisherman named William Stuart, 50 years old, was found iv the Heathcote River, near the steam wharf, yesterday evening. It is said that he was driving hume m a trap on Saturday night, and that tht trap was found two miles below the wharf after midnight. It is supposed that h» left it for some purpose and; fell into the river m the datk. He Was brother-in-law to Mitchell, proprietor of the carpet factory recently burned. Napieb. Tuesday. A master tailor named CottreU coa> mitted suicide this morning by takinf carbolic acid. Business troubles ar« believed to have been the cause of th« act.