TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1711, 18 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association). : Dunkdin. Monday. W. J. Greig has been arrested at th» Bluff on a charge of leaving the Colony wuh a view to defraud his creditors. He has recently been m business m Dunedin as a grocer. In vercargill, Monday. A man named George Clark has been committed for trial for stealing £29 from a farmer m a publichouse. Auckland, Monday. Further prosecutions have been begin ,' for breaches of the Fisheries Gonserva--1 tion Act by gathering Oysters'. ; The Bootmakers' Union have appointed a committee of six to meet the employes, with full power to settle th* dispute. Further intelligence has been received of the brigantme Lapwiner, which put into Montevideo seriously damaged. Th* repairs would cost £1700. The vessel had been m collision with a sUamer, name unknown. It is probable that the vessel will be abandoned, to the-Under-writers. She is insured for £1300 m th» New Zealand Office, and m the Union for £300. The freight is t insured -for £10.000 m New York and London ofnees. Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co, hold an insurance m Lloyds. / s Qbeymouth, Monday. Since the imperative order to Mr Kilgour to stop work m -bis mine, the Eailway Department have put a gang of workmen on the ground, who are engaged m putting a post and rail fence, around the poppet-heads, . enginehotise, and blacksmith's sh;op t so as to; ensure no work being carried on. . * '': -.»