TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 35, 12 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[PIS PEEBB ASSOOIATIOir.] . ' Wellington, Tuesday, t p.m. Sir George Grey and Mr. Sheehan go North to-night. Mr. Stout went South to* day. > .-.• •. . .= j . Eoss, a fruit dealer, for. exposing rotten, fruit for sale, tv fined 40a. Th#,magU-. . trate said he would inflict the , full nenj&tjS of £20 for such offence hereafter. •■',^^ The proposed Naval Brigade now 4umr ' bers 100. The GbTernment •ocepted. it« serricet. Moore, who found gold at "Wainui-eroaU,. has written to the. Hutt County Council,^ asking to be given the gold duty v relfiatij* for a certain time, if discovery prove* «i| % Valuable as he thinks it will, ' . Cabtertoh, Tuesday,.* pan. ' . A public meeting, after a long discussion* . decided againat forwarding' a petition, : signed by ten ratepayers, asking to be eon.* stituted a Borough. ' . ' ' . DuNKMN, Tueeday,,B p.m. The grocery store of Thonuui Hone and » draper's shop, at Kaikoura, hare been burned down. The occupants were alarmed by children's screams just m- time to ier* tiieir live 3. - Premises, stock, and furniture destroyed. ' : Money and Quinn's office, and FeigtuenV premises, Tapanui, have been also bunted. Ferguson was insured for £2000 on stock and £600 on building, and Money tar MSOO m Union and small risk m the Victoria. A coal. carter, named Moon, has keen committed for trial for rape on a child of Sergeant-major: Bevan, aged seven, years. Cheistchubch, Tuesday, 8 p.m. Several cases of burglary hare been reported lately,, AucxiiAuiv Tuesday, 8 p.m. Groat preparations are being made for the Xopua meeting. ' ' ' Goldie's expenses at the- late election. were £105 ; Dignan's, £2.60. Hopecraft, editor of the. Thames Star, i» dead. The cause of death waa congestion of the brain. A carpenter, named Samuel Noble,, hung himself at Kaipara.