TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 195, 16 July 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) AncKLAND, July 14. An action bj'oijght m the District Court by Robert Bailos, the paptuirer <\i Winiala, to recover from the Onequnga Building. Society trustees £120 of hit} reward which he had enti listed to his mother, and which she had depqsited^ with tfye society prior to her death. Judge Smith peered a refund of the money by tbe^trustees andialso the pay T raent of costs. DfNEDjy, July H. ftenry James Smith, a.t $he fqlice Court, was charged with, assaulting a man named Ward, who had remonstrated with him while he was heating his wife. He was fined £5 or a month's imprisonment, 30a of the fine to be given to Ward. The special efforts which have been made to raise funds to proceed with the Catholic Cathedral have resulted m £1020 being raised. It is expected that another LI OOO will come from the couutry.

Chkistchurch, July 14. The Hon. B. C. J. Stevens has given Ll5O of his honorarium to the Benevolent Aid Society, nnd the balance to the Avonside Sick and Needy Fund. Several oC the unemplo3'ed havo accepted the Govern ment's latest offer of work, at 4s Gd a day along the railway, together with free conveyance by train to .and from Christchurch every day. During last night the Congregational Schoolroom was broken into, and about L 6 worth of silver stolen. It is believed the theft was committed by a boy, as the print of a small foot was found new a window that had been forced.

Inyebcabgill, July 14. The Southland Frozen Meat Company are about to call fortenders for the erection of works alongside the Bluff Wharf, their plant having arrived per the Bebington, now at Lyttelton. The company has been seriously delayed through the loss of the first freezing machine by the collision m the English Channel.