TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 207, 29 July 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) Auckland, July 26. The Star states that the policemen who designed the capture of Winiata, the Epsom murderer, have not yet been paid the expenses incurred m connection therewith. James Thomas, engineer of the ship Rangitikei, fell off the gangway of the ship while going aboard, slightly under the influence of liquor. He was rescued by the second mate and a seaman from the water before life was extinct, but efforts of resuscitation failed. George Ebbs, photographic artist, was fined 20s and cos Us for practising his art by taking portraits on Sunday on the Beach road, Devonport. This whs the second prosecution of the kind. / At the annual meeting of the Oddfellows (Manchester Unity), Auckland district, the report showed the year's gain to be £1490, and the sick management district fund £34,341. Dunedlv, July 26. A conference was held between the newly elected members of Parliament and the committee of the Benevolent Institution, to consider the embarrassed condition of the institution, m ' which there is not room for another inmate. The committee had applied to Government for money to erect new buildings, but were refiweJ. The members promised to assist the committee, and it was ve<»olv«d to reapply for funds to the Government. A I the tire at H atton, King and Co.'s confectionery factory, the large stock of goods and ingredients, were found to be destroyed, and the valuable machiuery rendered almost useless. Christchurch, July 26. All yesterday afteruoon there wast incessant heavy ruin, and at night and tlm morning heavy snow, The hills the sy>u.lU of the city are covered wjth snow. Today has been line, but the temperature very low. Mi* Oliver Wansey, m the event of another election for Stanniore, offers himself again as a candidate. It is rumoured that several of the rejected of other constituencies would also woo Stanmore -were the present election upset. TiMATtu, July 26. The weather is very boisterous and wintry. Heavy snow fell on the Southern Alps and the lower range of hills last, night, with heavy ruin and a slight fall of snow on the poa,st. lsa}n is nqw coming dawn steadily, with a strong north-west gale.