TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 271, 13 October 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PKES3 ASSOCIATION.^ AIJCKIiAND, Oct. tO. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a resolution was passed calling the attention of the . Government to the desirability of establishing a College of Agriculture. \ . Detectives are engaged m investigating the case of incendiarism at tho City Market. This is about the sixth attempt to burn it down. • ■-.'*,.

TaurAnga, Oct. 10. The Chemical Manure Company has utilised tho White Island sulphur with great success, aud have made 20. tons, of sulphuric acid, including several tons pi oil of vitriol. The company are now making superphosphate manure.

Christchurch, Oct. 10, Another smart shock or earthquake occurred at 5.52 this morning;. Sixty-two unemployed started for road making. at Waiau to-day. i= - < . The Now Zealand .Shippiri j Company have received a cablegram:. dated. London, October 9, as follows : — " Tongariro arrived, all well, at Plymouth to-day ; actual steaming time, 38 days 10 hours. The Opawa and Rakaia have bailed.

DijnedinJ Oct. 10. The Divorce Court will hold ,a sitting next week, when P. W. Newman, ahd Eliza Newman and Alfred HodtJen for a rule nisi for dissolution ©f marriage will be heard. Tne petitioner was married to the respondent m 1865, and lived with her at Hawkesbury Bush till 1874, aud there were four children as the issue of the marriage. The .petitioner alleges that his wife then cohabited with the co-respondent, and has since resided^with him at Waimate/ :>

, ■ j ' Invercargill, Oct. ,10i A Inan . named William McCrackren, was found dead, m his hut at: Forest Hill, uear Winton, last Jiight. rHehad apparently been dead some .days! No foul play is suspected, but jiu inquest will probably be held. ." .. ' ■'•' "•