TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1731, 11 June 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PffESS ASSOCIATION.) UhrisTchubch, Thursday. The Sfc Alban's Licensing Committee resolved to-day to close the hotels m their district, which are close, to the city, at 10 p.m. The weather here has been exceptionally severe throughout the day- very cold, with rain and hail, while the Port Hills are snowcapped, and snow has fallen m Lyttelton and many of the country districts. £> DUNEDIW, Thursday. There has been a considerable fall of snow to-day. News has been received that Esjremonti the defaulting secretary of th? Adelaide Building Society, has been sentenced to six years. . „ The weather has been very boisterous throughout the day. Snow commenced to fall m the morninsr, and, with sleet, hail, and rain, continued throughout the day. ; , Natter, Thursday. The criminal sessions opened to-day. The calendar comprises 15- charges against 13 prisoners. Invercargill, Thursday. Mr John Hare, a well-known merchant, died suddenly last night. Deceased arrived here many years ago, and for a long time did a large trade with the lakes and goldfields. Before coming to New Zealand he was at the Cape of Good Hope and on the Victorian goldfields. Auckland, Thursday. It has transpired that when the Home Enle resolution was carried at the Auckland meeting; and it was resolved to send it by cable to Mr Gladstone, the Orangemen of Auckland sent a cable message to- the Marquis of Salisbury, stating that the meeting was not representative of 'the people of Auckland, but merely of the Irish party here. The four seamen who deserted from the American whaler Petrel at Bussell have been sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The inquiry into the charges against Captain Eeid and the mate, Mr j.Foley,- begad to day at Russell. A good deal of evidence was taken. It is understood that the investigation is only preliminary, and the evidence will have to be taken again at; Auckland before, the American Consul. : The captain and mate are mutually recriminating and blaming each other for the state of affairs.