TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 14 August 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. } PuNEi>iM> August 11. ..,.- The Mayor of Port Chalmers, Mr Allen, has obtained special leave of absence 1 from the council m order to pay a visit to Sydney to endeavour to introduce Port Chalmers stone ifor use m the construction of the proposed dock there. .. reference to the Salvation Army elopement, it is stated that on the return of Major Pollard from Melbourne the whole aftair will be made the subject of a strict inquiry, and m al! probability the headquarters staff will grant a small pension to Mrs Bedingfield. A.n effort will be made to bring Captain Bedingfield and the girl back. Legal force, if available, will not be used, but the strongest moral persuasion will he brought to bear on the couple to try and induce them to return to their respective homes and friends. . AH but the three principal sufferers by the late explosion of chemicals at Milton are out of the, doctor's hands. No further hope is entertained of Mr James Reid ultimately gaining the use of his eye. In the other two cases, Mr Strachan's eon and Mr Jones' daughter, there is an improvement and peiception of light m each case, and it is believed they will be fully restored to sight. , Christchurch, August 12. In May last a laborer named . Foster purchased from Mr McDevltt, licensee of the Carlton Hotel, a pint of beer, which the latter delivered m ■ a bottle previously used for oxalic acid. ; The beer acted as a poison, and Foster was very ill. Today he brought an action against the publican, and gained a verdict for L 23 with costs, «£S 9s. The Kaiapoi Woollen Cbmpany are executing an order for Glasgow. In the harbor, near the Harbor Board's boatshed, the body of Richard King, a seaman employed on the Gipsy, trading to the bays, was found . to-day . King, who was addicted to drink, was missed' about a month ago. Mr Murphy, secretary of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, left for Hokianga with Mr Federli, to report on a block of land for a fruitgrowing settlement. Auckland, August 12. Mr Fenton, late chief judge of the Native Lands Court, has been invited to become a member of the Soeiete Dethnographique, whose headquai'ters are m .Paris./ This is persumed to be the result of his lectures recently de livered m Auckland on the origin of the Polynesian i ace,