TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 18, 19 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(JUNITKD TRESS ASSOCIATION.) ] Auckland, Thuxtday. : A wrestling match is arranged betweei G. Graham, light-weight wrestler -of Suji Frnncisco, and J. Rcany, of Dun-' "ediu, for £30 a-side. The thatch takes placet on th«< 27th. Thp Northern Company's lona, has boe'n Chartered by the Union Company to ruij with tho Southern Cross, m the Fiji, group. Mr | 'lV W. Browning's residence at Tamuliero, Humillon, was burnt down tin's fprunooti. It was insured m th#» New Zinlund Company for £600 on thet housajaud furuitur*. The origin of th« fire is believed to have been clothes dry | ing at tin? fire. Mr John .Reid, President of the Cliam her of Commerce, entertained the Southern delegates proceeding by th« Janet iNicpil to tho South Seas at dinner to-night, 1 at the Auckland Club. The members of the Committee of the Chamber were present. In the spnnchu's mado tho speakers eulogised Sir Julius Voxel's exertions to establish the island steam j service, and his health way heartily drunk. Mr A. D Donald, one of the; contractors, warned the Aucklaud people that unless thf^" looked shnrp, th« Sojuth : would he, most heticfitted by service, as Hh biiihi get better terms for transhipping inland produce at Wellington foj- England than at Auckland. The SouHi-rn delegates promised to bring back th»- fullest iuformution possible concerning the island trade. J DuNKDrN, Thursday. . ■' At a meeting of coursing men, it .was decided to communicate with the Jonkey Club with tho view of forming the Fprhury Hark into a Plunipton grouiid, At the City Police Court to-day, Yin-' cant Biisiup, alias Lynch, was sentenced to onejyear's 'imprisonment for victimising tjhe people by ringing the changes. "1 he; pastoral deferred payirteht laudholderfi are {petitioning Parliament to tret capitation grants, as m the caso of tho agricultural settlers. Thai Minister of Lauds refuses to' roeomoiend a further inquiry into the Waituhuna West- lands. At a mooting ot the. Manufacturers 1 Association, it was rea'olvad that, m order tfo strengthen Mi« hands of Miniff- , tcrs atjd members, who m their election speecl^-8 indicated a leaning towards Protection, and recognising such a ; policyjas necosaary to (he .prosperity of'the Cqlony, the Association' adopt Protection, as ita platform. j Chr,istchu-<jh;,- Thursday. "Early this morning; an ''engine, coml/in'e aud elevator wore d«Bt*oyud by fire at W.j Anderson's farm, ■ I'ust. They are insured m the Standard Office for j Incendiarism v suspected. - • -•