LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 180, 7 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PJSB PKESS ASSOCIATION ]. Wanga%i, This day. The ratepayers have, invited the seven candidatesfor the four Borough seats to meet them to-night, and give expression to their views. Milner tephen arrived last night and gives a public healing oxt Satnr* day.;?;.; ' ■■' „'• . ; .;. ' , --■ , /:■ Gisbobne, This Day. Between 8 and 9 o'clock last night; the Poverty Herald office was fired by" an^ incendiary. A portion of the printing office was destroyed but no damage was done to the type or machinery. Rain . jps ,,. falling heavily atthe time, and consequently fejv people/were about. The fere was extmguiahed-by willing hands^ who. came upon the scene at the sound, of the fire Jie&Jv.'Q^isftme spot where the fire was discovered last night was set fire to a yeajrago. The block m which the Herald office ia situated is: very valuable. Hadtherincendiary deferred his work for a couple of hours' later it must halve rescdted m ,a great <spnflagration. The room . used by the Editor had also been set fire to, but the nre appears to have gone' out. ' „ ' 1 ; . CkbißTchubc«, yesterday. A private cablegram, states that the Chriatchureh College has swept all the first class honors in> the New ZJealand University examination^ There is' much activity among the newly enrolled Volunteers ; parades are well attended and with- punctuality j good, recruits: are busily drilling, and .picking up their duties rapidly. Wbllikgton, February 6. The, properly tax paid for the financialy earamounts-to about £100,000 'Iharsday, the Bth wwart r will be the last day upon* whick-the taji can be paid! without the addition! of the J^^ per cent! penalty- JM OHEisxcttWßpH^TbißDay. A man, named Aifcken, 80' years of age, was found drownedin, the rivernear Heathcote- yesterday^ It ia supposed that he committed; suicide^ E. J. Lee announces, himself as a. candidate for thftSelwyn seat. AvcKXANJ>i Feb. 6» The Wesleyan Guaference taw-dosed their session*. A number of members left by the kanaka yestecd&y. The re^fe UavebythißEotwnahanioa-Thar^H^^ The next,. Coafereace wif^W held at Wellington. **■ * -