TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 255, 24 September 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PBE9B ASSOCIATION.) ' Dunedin, Sept. 22. The Harbor Board ykted the Heads to-day, accompanied by a party of citizens, to see the first pile driven of the staging for earning the truck '* which will deposit the rubble for the building 1 of the training. The present .contract is 500 ft of the staging, *rid n has been taken at a price a good deal below the estimate. The motion by Councillor Cairns^' for the withdrawal of the Mayoral salary, and substitution of 100 guineas as a fund for discretionary .gifts at the City Council rto^night :;was lost, only the mover supporting it. ' Blenheim, Sepfc 22. The Blenheim, Telegraph' Depart* nient's Boat Club annual meeting on Saturday showed 33 members an/I ££$ ,*- ----balance m hand.,.. It was decided to enlarge the shed and buy three additional, boat?.. The club haa .onbrj;; >. existedtwb years, bujb haejbpugh(; and/ paid for three boats and the shed.- ----* •-.■'._?:... . . . ... : ■■■ ! •*» fs." -"i si '• Christchvrch, Sep^^.f^' .■; Li the divorce caseTpwle.y r ,%A«^, ;; > , and others, Mi justice, ifo^ston^ •/■ gmateti a decree nisi to-day, /* O^(4Ba t Sept/li.' .. A,sti?iT)ge o^cui^retjce haH been -Jftr-. x \ ported to tne }x>lice! l!he cboic of tuo barque Onyx left, that vessel on Satur-, . day .night, and on ; Sunday movuinj; ife was rejiorted that he had endeaypred, ;^ to swim off to the yessel fiom ; .vhjt mole, and ; after L awimniingfo.r alKout,a.. 1; hundred yards, had sunk. "TJHfeWs ; and crew of the, vessel doJ not attacks much < credeppe , , to v the^ .; story^ ..told,-, but as yet nothing has ; teen diacoyered io alter the.sta^ejn.enV r . mad«. ; ;Th«{ police inquiries, but nothing has yet t\"ans« ; . t .pirei^, -... ■„„../ ,«•' i-..T. u :> : ■^ l>; ,-' ;. ' Arck^AND, Sept. 22. ',, -."" si '.| Wbilesuperintendingthefloatingont of dock ot the steamer Triumph thw t : morning, Captain Burgess, Harbormaster, met with, tin "accident. One of the lines slipped off a: pile, md i struck him very knocking > i him into the water. Being anexceW^

"lent swimmer, he kept afloat until robcued. The Triumph will be redocked stara first, m order to effect aepairs to the rudder poat. sfr Howard Vincent^ late director of criminal investigations iv London, arrived by the mail steamer. He intend* to travel through New Zealand, spending somo time m Wellington, and then leave for the Australian colonies. He will visit New Caledonia to examine the working of the convict system there, then proceed to the Dutch settlements m Batavia. On hi* return to England, he wiH >»eek election to Parliament m the Liberal interest. . •