TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1727, 7 June 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; . (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Saturday. The City Council fortnight agreed to send a cable message congratulating Queen Victoria on attaing the jubilee of her reign. Conncillor GOldie protested against the cost, £28. - . The Council have considered Sir B t Stout's Municipal Corporation Bill, aad have carried a number of resolutions suggesting amendments. William Noble, the temperance leo- -■ turer, is a passenger by the Rotomahan* . to Wellington. His mission m Auckland , has been very successful, and he is con- . sidef ed the best temperance lecture heard ■■■ here. « . : Alexander Brown, draper, charged with unlawfully absconding from hit creditors, has been committed for trial. Captain Webb, American Consul, has investigated the charges made by tht deserters from' an American whale ship against the captain and mate for illus&ge ou the high seas. Captain Webb has • come to the conclusion that the state* ' ments are exaggerated. The captain and mate admitted that there was the 1 •- usual amount ot chaffing on board a vessel. Only one man exhibited a gear, which he said had been inflicted, by a - . blow. The mate had been discharged - from the ship by consent, owing to disagreement with the captain before the ; complaint was laid. ■ . Chkistchubch, Saturday. Sir William Pox and Mr Gloyer have foimed a branch of the New Zealand Temperance Alliance here with rather more than 60 members. There has. not • been much enthusiasm evoked by their visit m Chiistchurch.