TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 19 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

. . (UNITED PKEBS ASSOCIATION.) JDUNEWIT, Tuesday. A verdict of accidental death- was returned at the inquest on the bodies of the two children burned to death at Morhington, on Saturday. At a preliminary meetiug. of the poli(|y«holders m the Australian Mutual -Protiident Society, it was decided to hold another meeting to consider the Directors' proposaUjlto establish, a London agency. ; Nelsq», Tuesday. - A man named Daniel Maloney.charged with stealing a powy,- .belonging to Mr Harvey, of Wakapuaka, was to-day committed for trial. ; The charge is that prisoner took the pony on the morning of the 25th April, and rode it., without v saddle to the Hammer, a distanoe of 200 inileß. The pony was entirely dona up when Maloney was arrestod on the Ist May at the VVaUu.

Ohristchurch, Tuesday, . The Chairman of the Orphanage ComV mi t tee has written to tho newspapers, enclosing, letters trom the present man* ,t«r and* members of the staff, danyintf the statements of Bitchio's last defence« ahe members of the staff deuy Ritchie's statement, that they wished In resign when he left, is correct, and says ; that he endeavored to jret them to t«' sign, and has triad to tamper with them •since. The assistant master states that the blankets were never washed for 3£ .yearn. >.' ; - •, •>.--- •■■ ; : .-- » < .-» : ->.. f: .-. : . ! .... •... HokitiKA, Monday. . At the District Uout't, Hoinrieb Detioker, charged with frauduleut bankruptcy iv not .disclosing property, the jury brought m a verdict of not guilty, on V the ground that accused had no inten- | turn to commit fraud. ; Carterton, Monday, Mrs o.. Rutherford, of West wood, on* of the first Oarterton setllera, died tud* . denly this morning from bronchial asthma. AuckiilSD, Tuesday. A! boy named Archibald Cook, aged 10, was drowned while playiug at Free' m«n«,Bay. - . ' ' ; " ■•■■' " •■■ A Maori woman was burned to death m a whare at Kirikiri. In the oas« of Robert Jenkimon v< Auckland Harbor Board, a phase of tho Biubrogiio m ooquectiwn with the rail' way rcolaQiation wal), a verdict was re* ;tu4?ned for plaintiff tor £584, with costs Ontlie higliesfi scale, The Boot Manufftotnrera* Association bare again declined to re-open tiegotiations with the. Operatives Union. They offer to receive the men at the factories tomorrow on the statement and resolution limiting the employment of boys.