TELEGRAPHIC.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222037, 16 January 1900, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From own Correspondent.) - WELLIN GTON -MAN A WATU , f RAILWAY. Wellington, Yesterday. Pressure is being brought to bear A on the Government to purchase the ;■ Wellington-Manawatu railway. The r Times hints that Mr Wurd is-likely to s seriously consider the quJHtion of \ purchase. „ PATRIOTIC FUND. The collection at the Church service yesterday in aid of the Fund, was £77 2s 6d and Jes £6B 9s sd. Fully 10,Q00 visited the camp on Sunday afterno«4| , The following skit was posted up oat- 4 side the camp -kitchen-—Kruger’s Hotel bill of fare—Boiled Joubert Is, plate lyddite, shells 6d, pound of. fried v Boer with Gleneoe sauce 7<L^r N.Z. SWIMMING /ASSOCIATION. The Government have decided to distribute £IOO to. the New Zealand Swimming Association to assist in fostering swimming and: life saving. Another hundred pounds will be placed, in the hands of the Association to enoourage swimming in primary schools. FOUND DEAD. Dunedin, Yesterday. Mr Jas. McKenzie Mclntosh, custom house- officer, was found dead in a summer house in his garden ' ■morning. Heart disease, it is *»p- . - posed, caused his death. v * THE DALEY REWARD. > Auckland, Last nighfW Tbis afteraoon the £2.00. was paid over by .Mr John Lawson, official assignee, Power, a gumdigger, received £IOO and Constable Kelly, of Helensville, £IOO. It is understood that Constable Kelly will give stable Williams a sum for his efltpJHh in discovering Daley. DALEY BEFORE THE COURT. At the Police Court this morning, before Mr H- W. Brabant, S.M., Chas. Grant Da Ley, was ' two breaches of the Bankruptcy^E^ 1892 i—(1). That on 21st of December, - 1899, he concealed property of the 'value of £lO and. upwards that ought to be devisable among his- creditors, viz., £1950. (2). That on. 2lst of December he disposed of drapery and clothing to the value of £29,110, which he obtained on credit and had not paid After th«-e**doweo Of Wfllifim Henry • Grove the accused was remanded unfit the 22nd inst. v-r