LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 1 August 1884, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

. . • • — '■ —■ ' o ■ • (united press association.) Auckland, July 31. Nothing fuither has been heard of the brigantine Parnell. An old identity named Chmles Lawson has died, aged 80. He was one of the oldest members of the Oddfellows, and built' the first Oddfellows Hall in Auckland. . The Rotomahana, for Sydney, was beaver of the following prize stock :— 23 head cattle, 3 houses, and 10 rams, shipped by the Auckland Stud Company. Wellington, July 31. At the inquest on the boy Jeremiah Savage, who was drowned on Castlepoint beach, a verdict cf found drowned was returned. Deceased was galloping along tbe beach, and it is. supposed was thrown from his horse. . DuNEDiN, July 31. A conference between Milner Stephen, the magnetic healer, and three medical men took place to-day, concerning an alleged case of a euro of an internal cancer in a woman. The doctors were hhown the cancerous growth preserved iv a bottle, but re quired personal inspection. On this being granted one of the doctors pronounced the rancer to have spread since his previous examination, and to be in no way cured. Chkistchttrch, July 31. This afternoon the remains of a Crimean veteran, Samuel Wilson, one of the " Six Hundred," was interred in the Addington cemetery. Wilson, who was 50 years of age, was a trooper in the Bih Hussaia at the time of the famous charge, but rose to the rank of sergi.-raajor. A dressmaker has been driven out of her senses by religious hysteria, aggravated by Salvatiou services, at which she was an enthusiastic attendant. The unfortunate girl is now an inmate of the Sunnyxide Asylum. Her affliction is ho violent that she has to be placed in a padded room. 'Wellington, This Day. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Messrs E. Pearce and J. B. Nathan were appointed delegates to represent the "Wellington chamber at the forthcoming conference at Cbristchurch.