TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 128, 7 November 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united pbess association.) j ' Chbistchubch, Nov. 5) The^ of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company report' that on Friday last the depth ; of $cv : 3 ; bore Was 435 ft. The rock was stjll showing; oil, with gas, coining i reelyi ;,-,.; ,-, , cTIMAHU,:. NOV. 5. | A man named Thomas Parks wis committed for trial at G-eraldine today for rape cm a girl between 13 and 14 years of age. . . ! ' ..;,..■. .»!•.;■'■ Nelson, Nov.- '5. '; A. H. Lockart was charged at tlie police court with passing valueless . and. was sentenced' to'* two. months' imprisonment. Hecame froju Canterbury. , j, „,- , Attcklani)^ -JiTov. ,s*! At- a~4neeting held to-day ft was J resolved to present Mr Fraser with Ja piece of plate tpcommemorate his successful floating and repair of the 5.i... Triumph. , ' _, f At a meeting 1 of the New Zealand Tobacco Growing and Manufacturing Company, resolutions were carried for i voluntarily wiping -up , the^ Com>pany^s afjairs, with a view to its amalgamation with the Auckland Tobacco, Company* . , i; i « i ' \ At a meeting of the unemployed convened by to Mayor: to test the statements as to the number of the unemployed,, twenty-nine married an 4 thirty-three single signed the list; The Mayor said the council would, do anything reasonable for the unemployed,, but iwould onlj let. work by contract. . j Dunedin, Not. 5. ; The Mayor having been interviewed by the unemployed, telegraphed to the Minister of Public "V^orks, . who has replied that work will be reopened for them at Mosgiel. The corporation has takon on about a dozen. ' ' " ,