LATE TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 25, 5 February 1879, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

■V^ELiryoTOS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. IVfiv, Diuncan's sale of reclaimed land attracted a large, attendance to-day. All but four sections waro. stoki, prices ranging from £3 L to £io i p,w fopt. Nearly =all the purchaser wera YVellmgfcon, men, Kircaldie and Stained baing the. largest h,uyer3. The total procoaJsof thftsitlaamp^ioAtP,^^ I'^l^-"1 '^ I^-" The remaining sections w«ra since sold privratcly x raalising aboi\t £.3000 m,ore» McKenzio who was bi\r^ecl out Taita was collector to the. Hutt I<oea\ Hoard, an,d lost all the b.ooks an,d BM) of the Rookl's money m safe. He and his family being destitute, a, sub3crip.tion lUt has been op^ne.l. The, p jliee bcliore they have arrested . a professional London bui'glar m the shape of s, man na^ed Brown, cliargedwitli a anuli

robbery at Smith's Oyster Saloon.! A' full rig-oufc of burglars* took was found' in bia possession.* '. ' .. *■:'■■ ;. AtrcKiAND, Tuesday, % p.m. • V< A boy named Alfred Bowles yeas caught m the- uiach inery at Holduhip's Mill, Both, his legs weco-smaslied.; He is not likely talive. ,\' ■ "'.■■' ,-"• ■-^ -.. The. New Zealand Loan lad. Mercantile Agency Comn^ny report ! i~" London;- 29tk January. a little private inquiry ; trade m manufacturing district* duty. Aj> rivals to date> 93,000 bales." ItoKBDiK, Tuesday^ Bp.ni. . David Thompaon, a member o£ the Albioa . Cricket Club, ;w:as sentenced to. wren days' imprisonment for breaking op^d a box, and? stealing a pair of. shoes belonging to inothermember; > - , "" - V - ' CnRiSTCHVBOH, Tuesday, 8 pan. Robert Scott, sen., of Windmill road, shot -himself dead. &st njght'from. the-ef^ fects Qf. drink. ; , . ISTEECAaaxLi, Tuesday, 8 p.m, Mr Conyer3 is m^sh better. Messrs. Ballanceand Stout hate, gone ta QueenstoTcn. ••"■... ... i