TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 29, 5 January 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Janl 3. John^ Lairig, chief cook of the s.s. Arawa, was this afternoon found m an i insensible condition m the forehold ot ' that' vessel. The symptoms indicate that the skuU is fractured. No one • '" knows how the accident happened. '-"■"'." " : ''' ' .. ■. '.".'" ■;,.':" :„•'■ ■ Janl 4« •■ The Customs . revenue for the • last ~ quarter of 1884 brings the total for; 'the year up to d61,4}8,421 against £1,414,181 . for the year 1888.., ? .... „-• .- ' •..•.-. -.v.. ■■'■ ■■■ • • -..This Day.: 1 • The' criminal fcessioris of ; the Supreme ■ • Court opened thiS'indrningi There was nothing special in' the ■; charge to ' the ' Grand Jury by the Chief Justice. He 1 'said none of the casos were likely to present any difficulties. ' '' The/Grand Jury fround true bills m three 1 charges against' Waring Taylor. ■:■' The'cHargeagaitißtW.' Allen, mate of ■' : * the 'Hawea, for manslaughter will ' nbt be proceeded with..;'; ' ■ , "; : j i; ■|, i CHaiSTCOTRCHi Janl-4. The ship Taranaki, from London, ar- ' rived to-day Shesppke the ship ,Opawa from London for Wellington, on October ; r 9th. •.-,,. ;:. . . ■ : i: '■} . Oamabu, Jan. 4. * The ship Marlborough. sailed yesterday for London with a cargo of 10,455 sheep, besides wool and sundries;,' /;|; "' ;• !A^cklAni>^ Jan. 4J ; i John Pattison, who was injured at the ' :';; racgj on New Year's Day, died of his m Vt juries torday* . ■.;■ i ../...'.. : A man named Fish was fouiMdrowned .'-.;. at- Dargaville. He had b,e.en :i missing "; ';•' Since the .Mangawhare. ; races. .... . f r > Parbary, the horse injured at yesterj, clay's Steeplechase, has been shot. . ; , • ■ .: . .-..■...:.■. j I JJljNfiDiN, Jan. 4.; --• Gerald Fitzgerald wfl-s brought up [at the Police Court torday, charged with '•• . . the murder of WiUiam; Meldrum, |at ! ; Nenthbrn, and committed for trial. , : At tide inquest on the. guard, John Wm. WHtehead, a witoess.deposed fc tnat . • ilold him.one of the carnages V/ ; iwas Bo crowded lie did not like to pass through. .', AJ.t- J.- ' •, A man named. John Gront, of W,ai- ,. mate, fell off the ; nprth train, jneat the Blueskin Cliffs, "But 'he fortunately received only a seyere shaking and a few .bruises'. :' ' 1: ' ' ' ' \ ■