TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1714, 21 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■■}■ .(UMBPIJD PKESSASSd^ttIO^.I : ' A .bushman named J. Balling, eijaployed by%Moßirs Meßeth and McDon^ »ld,'bußh eon'tractorfl atKekeVangti, left his whare en Sunday, arid has not since beeri hoard of. He is supposed to be lost m the bush. A party has started m [ search of the missing inatf, '" A verdict of £250 and costs hare been awarded by the jury against the, Auokland Tramway Company m the: case of Mrs James Brewer, who hurt her knee by tupping into the trench of a lino m course of construction. At a meeting of Justices of the Peace of Auckland on the compulsory attendarict of Justices m rotation, a resolu- , tion. was, past ip favor 6t appointing sti- ■ pend&ry magistrates. "' The Auckland Ministers Association hare passed a resolution endorsing the action of the Presbyterian ' (Adroit 'on' the New Hebrides question. .- Bishep' Uowio n «onTenii)g ; a mdeting of Anglicans for to-iiioriowj with a sioiiliar object. ... '■' ' ; - •■• ■ Hokitika, Thursday. At the Land. Board : meeting to-day,^ j three fresh mineral leases for' worlfing 1 | nickln -deposits .at. Gorge River was granted. Great confidence m the suecesg of the enterprise w expresned m that district. , - I Tliere are rumors of goldfi nd* m Land- ' borough River, a branch of the Haast, but they aro not confirmed. " New Plymouth, Thursday. Another fire occurred; this mbrning at 1.30, the property destroyed being Ferridell, at4he top of Cainerort.atreot, near the High School. It was a large house, atid belonged to the late Mr Chilman, fornierly Collector of. Customs here., It was unoccupied at the time, the late tennant having left last; week, tt was insured for £300 m the New Zealand Company. . Incendiarism, is Bdßpected. : ' '■"" ';' ' . „-; :^ '."> Invercajsgili., Thursday. The Havelopk Hotel, at Riverton, was burnt this morning. .No cause ia : afßigned, The iiisurdoca on, the houso r :fs JE35d,-and oh the furniture £175, both ■fn : the Union Office. , . .., - A meeting of Government Insurance policy holders is to be held on Friday night to secur« united action respecting tlio election of: a director, and to discuss the proposals to obtain increased vropre--sohtutioh bn the directorate, or hand- the Association back to the Government control. ...■:' ■''■■■■'. - ■-■•-.. A largo number of uuemployed workmen in«t the . Mayor ' today. If was stated that fully sixty men were but of work. .One man urged that work should be provided at once, ns several were on one meal a day, and had to walk: the streets at night, unless sheltered by charity. It was resolved that tha Mayor urge oh the Minister of Public Works: thn need for providing employ* meut for about 60 mon near town or on the Seaward Bush railway.