TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7404, 20 September 1902, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(Press Association.) Stbatfobd, Monday. The Stratford Bacon Oompiny is now offcrine five pence tho pound for pigs dead weight.

Nafikb, Monday. The Free Association of Employers and Workmen, established in 1890 as the outcomo of the great - maritime strike, is to be wound up, the present labour legislation having done away with all tho necessity for the association.

, Ddnptis, Tuesday. ." A Chinaman, aged 62, a fisherman, was found dead in his shop this morning He had been ailing for some lime. Invekoaegili,, Monday. - The Awarna Unity Temperance Reform " Council nominated Mr David Whyte, of the New Zealand Alliance, representative for a sent to secure their interests in the local option poll. Mastebton, Monday. Mr Eli Smith, who will probably contest the Maslerton seat, returns to the colony from the Old Country on Wednesday. Waipawa, Monday. Mr Charles Hall is tho only candidate yet announced for the Waipawa seat. Mastebton. Monday. A letter was received from the Department of Justice, notifying in respouse to a petition for tho release of John Siyage, sentenced to four years at AHckland on a charge of arson at Hawero, that the Governor was pleased to remit half of tie sentence and accused will be treated as if sentenced to two years'.

Welungton. Monday. The Marine Department has ordered a Magisterial enquiry into the wreck of the barauontine May. (JTho Educational Department is submitting to the Educational Boards the names of the most suitable applicants for school drill instructorshipa.

New Plymouth. Monday. At a meeting of the Hospital Board Mr Lepper rosigned tho chairmanship and his seat, Mr Tiseh being elected chairman in his place. In the Police Court this morning a man named William {Harris was sentenced to three months' hard labour for killing a fowl under particularly brutal circumstances.