TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 376, 3 October 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

•. v . : . , " — ♦ — r—r': '■:■ •'. i. :'. Per Press Association. '-;■• Wellington, This day./ The s.s. Zealandia arrived at San Francisco, on September 30 with the September Colonial Mails, four days "Before contract tii&e. " V 0ct v 2.w £i,The young man named J. Ham-, mond, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of forging the name 'of hli employer, was to-day committed fdrttrial. 1 ' r ' ; , '- : : - •■• v ' : ' : "'" >XI Christchurch, Oct 2. 4 "The Diocesan Choral Association* hold their fifst festival pn Novenibef , 15th. Twenty«two chqirs, numbering 300 voices, have joined, and willi 1 take part m the,f estival, which will . be held m the Cathedral. '- ''-'Auckland, Octi 2; l ~'J/E. Redmond left Sydney per Manapouxi for Auckland, ?nd wilU l^tiirehere., „ . „' 7 i • Daniel JFallpn, contractor for the Calliope dock, losb LI2OO through «a mistake m tendering and unex* Jbedred difficulties tnrdugh ' water P^reakingi m on him. He lias fpefcitioned , the Harbour Board, tohim the actual loss iustainedi ' ' THree naval; deserters were , fp^' warded by the - Ringarobma* to. the warshipat Sydney, ha^ing^^pet^ tioned t\i& Commodore to be- iir'aus*' 1 ferred'from. Mount Eden' Gaol? J ■[ /'• ; * ' Spine Harbojir Board allofmenlsV oji;tiie harbour reclamations, 'iea^ed[i by brought three times the* upiet piice. ... ■' '■ !i ' ] '"* •■>■ ■■'■ ■'"■■ Dunedin, Oct2. '" the Police Court to-day, Wfl^ liam "Wishart, of the Clarendop Hotel, was charged with allowing dice playing at 2.30 on Sunday moK ning.' Six young. 'men had been, f ouncl ga.mblic.jg m the presence ; of.. tKe:iaidlady, by the PpHce, The Resident Magistrate ; said he was lati&fied -there was a case for con--Tictibn^but agreed to an' appeal pn; the^ppint that the landlord n&& nqtl known of the occurrence, : ' The landlord was m bed. - .. - /."> u^ " " ":' Kumara, ,This day. "Win. Redmon'd; ? M.P:, S arrived m Kumara from Greymouth on, Mon^ day/:'\'He TeceiVed ah ; address/^andl lectured the same evening to & large; audience.' He takes his departure; iibw' afternoon for Hokitika whe^e hd'lectures to^mght. :'- - ' ""' , .. . Auckland, This day. ' ' , A patient at: the Lunatic Asylum Assaulted another with a bioom■tipk.toMday, fracturing the latter's fkuiir^ -.v ;.-:'/::.: ; : ,:^ -•" ,*--.«; .-'■'••- Auckland, This day. .'; r^ fire broke out 'at % o'clock thi|,l morning m Wyndham Street. Jit fjrigin^ted, m a shop and tenement and pppupied by Jacobs, bootmaker. t|apops, h'ig wif e, ancl two children, who. ? slept m the upper storey, epcaped. Mrs Jacobs was wakened by the bedroom becoming full* of smoke, and at the the same noticed, flames issuing from N Jfc«-shop windipw 'below. The neigh-* /baurfcplittraeted 1 /by the screams, r prociired a ladder and rescued one of ;^ildren nby-^the Mrs^acpbß m her; excitement, got out the other window and fell to the ?ground but escaped unhurt. Jocobs and the other child escaped by cliMnbering into the window of an adjoining shop. H^ i Dunedin, Oct 2. TSe Roys were arraigned this morning and pleaded not guilty, but all the Crown witnesses not being :n attendance, the trial was adjourned* till 3?Huraday. v • ; * fll%*hle/v Supreme Court fto-dayc John -Day, aged *63>. -for* rape on a <fh'ild\o| '.t^n^ei: Tears, aj; Blu,esjun,. Vjkff s^jn^nced to. five y^ara. 1 ' f 1-- .' ' .• "':':'•'' Dunedin, October 2. J, %t the State^choql at Milton, a; coJiTi*^>town> the headmaster agreed ■^JjonMctL "!* "Bible Clas? b«fdre {A^hool hours^in the morning, and but of 283 advanced to read the^Biple, 251y atteuded^f 'I^o^^ Wellington, This.dayx v to-day delayed te egrami^w^ be simjly half-grice there -being 5a additional ftir po iige^ . :