TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1736, 17 June 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) Dunedin, Tuesday. The medals and certificates gained by Dunedin exhibitors at the Industrial Exhibition, Wellington, were presented at a public meeting this evening. A resolution was passed urging that the next exhibition should be held m Dunedin. The City Council havo decided to hold art inquiry as to who was responsible for the recent blasting accident, and under whose control the works were. Mr Justice Williams: has refused the application m the case arising out of the Dowling.Btreet accident for it to be heard by a special jury, ''^^hft Union Company have received intelligence 1 tfjat the Mararoa arrived at ; San Francisco one day m advance of her contract time. . Ch RIBTQHUBOH, Tuesday. William Verrall, an old and respected resident at Papanui, was found dead iv his chair on Saturday evening. He had been unwell for some time past. ' A girl named Brown, six years old, fell into a fire m her father's bouse, at Cust, on Saturday. She was fearfully burned, and there is little hope of her . recovery. s . The Canterbury ..Rugby Football Union will not send a team North this season, owing to the expected visit of the Sydney team, and to the fact that a team has to go to Otago. The Revs Boddingham and Mason, the misssioners who came from England accredited by the Archbishop of Canterbury, have just concluded a successful mission m this diocese. ' T\A farewell thanksgiving service was '. held m the Cathedral today, when there were be- . tween 300 and 400 communicants. The reverend gentlemen return to England shortly. •Mr T. W. Glover arrived by the Botorna from Dunedin today. He lecture* here to-night and to-morrow ; night, and on Thursday leaves by tJie Tarawera to rejoin Sir W. Fox, at Auckland. ••■;'•- -i . • Auckland, Tuesday. The Hinemoa arrived from Tanranga and way ports this morning. She reports unsatisfactory accounts of the state of the country for liva stock, also that Mayor Island is m the same condition. Timaru, Tuesday The Supreme Court' opened: its halfyearly session to-day before Mr Justice Johnston. A. J. C. Irorie, for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude, P. Mooney, charged with larceny as a bailee, was acquitted. The bill was thrown out by the Grand: Jury against Riddle for shooting a cow. This waa all the criminal business. • .. . f ■' , KApiEft, Tuesday, At the Ha Aor^bard meeting to-day, the. tender of MrTW. McGill, of Timaru, for £33,900 for the* cohstructipn of: the first section ef 660 ft of the breakwater was accepted; Several other tenders from Timaru were received.