TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1715, 22 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) - 1 Christchurch, Friday. ■ At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club yesterday, a resolution waaj>««Bcd expressing condolence with th« relatives of the late H. P. Lance. , The Treasurer's ;* report showed that £1982 had been expended m permanent • improvements of the racecourse, £8550 m added money, and £2602 m fwtfgp" stakes. " : ' ;■• * Ashbcotoit,> "Friday. A butcher named John* Gorton com* nutted suicide by hanging' l ' himself yesterday morning. .-■■,. ■ :-■ MABTERTON, Friday. At a meeting of settler* ipMauricevijle it has boon, decided to ask his Excellency the. .Governor to open the rail w^jr there, and to invite Ministers aud otheVs : interested to a banquet on the occasion; Gbeymouth, Friday. , . Very: stpady . rain has been falling since? /noon yesterday.- Thej; rirerp* ■''■■ flooded and* a til I rising; > TBer.ifeatnlr* ' ; Ohau and Pelhara ■ have beeu outsidesince Wednesday, early, and tlj* Wallabi, with cattle from WanganliU It is still raining hard. '/ , ■■••"■■' "..■■'.';" Aucki^nd,' Friday. '"'* - fiqongh is known of the ctnsur r .* tarnstO; show that the population p£ Auckland' and suburbs is orer 60,000. ■ Napier/ Friday^ A meeting of policy holders was held ' to-night. Tho meeting was addressed by Mr Shannou, who spoke strongly of , Sir Julias Vogel's action, especially . with reference to the . purchase of pro* per ty, and the, appointment of Atesara Driver and Speight. A Heries of resolutions was carried deprecating the pro. posal to band dyer the Association to Government .control, and' suggesting that there shoiild Be, four elected 1 mem- : hers of the Board. A vote of confident* m Messsrs Fisher and' Shannou was passed; Mi Fisher was requested to bring a Bill before Parliament makinf the required changes. Mastebton, Friday A house at Mana'ia,' occupied L and owned ''by, Charles' Battes, was destroyed by fir* at l o'clock this morning. Mr Bartes, his wife, and . children' ba^ely\ escaped m their night-clothes, Ther* wos no time to give the alarm to td« brigade at Maaterton. The building was insured m the New Zealand offic* ,for£loo. . , / . DrjNEDiN, Friday. The inquest on the fatal blasting a^< .. cident was continued 'to-day;^ ?Mff Vivian described what she witnessed in* the room whe i Mrs Finch was killed, Wiliana Barnes, overseer of works, and Josinh Rogers, who had charge of tk» powder, were examined at great length, » and the inquest was rdjourned till 27th.