TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 18, 19 December 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

, ; .-;,,.:.-y. t ■•- « -' • [CNITKD PRESS 4SBOCIATICIJ.7 . ISVERc^SiGtLt?, December' 17. At the Police Court to-day, two lads, qhavged-wtb^pa^sin^ a—disturbance^ at" Army .service were fined 10s each ; m default, 48 hours' im^~ prisonment. They pleaded not guilty, ajnd their lawyer defined the hall as a place where pgopleJ could do as they pjeased. The Court?.demurred to this view of the cas«,,-iioidiflg that it was li!ke any other places of wofehip. i Christchurch, i December 17. '• Mi* Rolleston : has replied to the Mayor re the unemployed, >-t6 the effect that work will be found : at once to enable them, .to; tide over me jfresent j difficulty. Bl .y, „ - • «! •■■■- -■■■' '->- _ I Messrs.. Itollesioiui and left to-day,per s ' l In; I I „.; AnQKirAiro, IJDecen&er dt.' 1 |Dr Parohase met with a; Seri6iis!!acci-dent,to-day. , .His horso betted^ -\»apsiz- f ing the buggy, and throwing the' doctbf on! to the stßeiet. ; He was 4kt Severely \ about t^e temple. .>^ I: :i : i .' ■ Two old identities are dead,- both of 1 them beingr local celebritieaj m their way, namely , ißichard Grigg, the PoHci C(»|urt poet, whb hasatteiidea the Polide (Jour t proceedings : i f of- '• i \ -tip wards ;of thirty years; and AirchitJalcT "Wilson, know as " the jniser." ■.Wilson is said to have left a large fortune behind him. Both men were: four scoie years old, and had been m .the province since 1840. V: : - ' . Dfnedin, December 17. It is stated that! ;Queenstown was nearly the scene of -a- duel during the present week, a w^ll-known representative of the fourth' estaW having received a challenge from a member of thcj Hebrew persuasion -to a deadly en^ coijntef" witH "either pistols or broail swords. The invite, however, was respeotfully declined.