LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1162, 29 September 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. The charge of manslaughter preferred against Christina Jansen, heard this afternoon, resulted in the accused being discharged. Special thanksgiving services were held in the Jewish Synagogue to-day for the success of the British in Egypt. The criminal calendar of the Supreme Court Sessions next is very light. There are no serious cases.

The return football match with New South Wales Team will be played to-morrow afternoon, and commences at 2 o’clock. The team leave for Napier in the evening. The City Council last night adopted a congratulatory address to the Queen on the success of the British arms in Egypt. They also adopted the report of the Hospital Enquiry Committee on a division of 9 to 4 ; and agreed to settle the long standing lawsuit by Climie, formerly Drainage Engineer, by the payment of £5OO, At a meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Leather Manufacturing Company directors were elected, and it was resolved to register the Company at once. “ Mr O. W. Clayton, the purchaser of the the old telegraph office, sustained a serious injury this morning. He is having the building removed, and when a section was being lowered, all the men were called to to stand clear. Clayton, however, did not hear the warning, he was struck across the thighs and rendered unconscious. He is in a critical condition.

The New South Wales football team did not nrrive here by the Te Anau until 1.30 this afternoon. The match will commence in about twe hours. A strong N.W. wind is blowing, and the weather altogther is unfavorable for football.

NAPIER, This Day. Resolutions were passed at a special nieetof the Borough Council last night, which will have the effect of saving salaries to the amount of £626 a year. Most of the reductions come into force in January next. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A man named Archibald W. Symans attempted to commit suicide with laudanum in a boarding-house where he was staying. It is stated that he was a recent arrival from the West Coast. The stomach-pump applied at the Hospital saved him.

INVERCARGILL, This Day. The cricket club here has accepted an offer of a two day match with the Hon. Ivo Blighs team in January. The Borough Council passed an address of congratulation to the Queen on the success of tne British arms in Egypt. Captain Thomas Thomson, eight years harbor master at the Bluff died to-day. AUCKLAND, This Day. A company has been formed to work the plumbago mine at Coromandel, with a capital of £15,000; and also the Auckland Meat Freezing Company, with a capital of £50,000. The Masonic Hall was nearly burned through the bursting of a kerosene lamp, but was saved by the presence of mind ami bravery of the caretaker, E. Murdoch. Very little damage was done. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board, Mr Shaw, of Wairoa, claimed travelling expenses from Gisborne to attend an advertised land sale, which on arrival he found had 1. jen postponed. The Board declined to recogn' j any liability.

A meeting of clergy of all denominations except Catholics and Baptists was held to consider the Contagious Diseases Act. A i motion was uiimed unanimously requesting ■ the Council not to bring the Act in force ; till it could bo amended so as to make it applicable to both sexes. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce intend to interview the Minister of Public Works, ' and urge the prosecution of the Otago Cen- j tral Railway to Blair Tacri. Steps are being taken at Milton to eata- i blish a woollen factory. News has been received that a detachment of the Salvation Army for service in New Zealand is on the way out per Potosi. The Hon. Mr Dick to-morrow receives a ' deputation from the City Council and clergy- I men re Contagious Diseases Act. T!;o Te Arohn reef, on the boundary of i

the Bonanza claim, uncovered a week ago by the prospectors, was again broken down to-day, when the show of gold was even better than before. A specimen was taken out by the Me it reporter, who goes to Auckland to-morrow, in charge, with Mr Oliffe, who was on the hill soon after it was broken out. TIMARU, This Day. The cow-catcher of the train near Orari !ast night struck and threw aside a man, name unkown, who was lying on the line. It produced concussion of the brain ami other injuries.