TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 246, 13 September 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PUEsa ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Sept. 11, ... Lionel Phillips, wine and spirit merchant, who went LI 2OO to ihe. bud m nine months, and is unable to account for it, has been refused the recommendation of his discharge by hi« creditors. . | The ship Earl Wemyss arrived at Levuka, August 29, from Glasgow, with for the New Zealand Sugar Company's mill at Ba River. The case, Bank of New Zealand v. E. Toske aud Janl Josko, an action for recovery vi L 7060, was recently heard before the Supreme Court, but an amicable compromise and settlement « as arrived at. A Mrs Mary Smith, wife of a seaman who arrived by the Waihoi^a from Dunedin, was assaulted m broad daylight m Western Park by four lads, who tin evg, her down, covered her month, and rohbt-d her of a purse and money. Three of them have been arrested. Chbistchi rcit, Sept. 11. In December last a lad, 13 years of iis;o, named Edward Cox, working at Birch Hill Station, Ashley, left his home with an old man named Travels without the consent of his parents. Ho was seen at Kaikoura, but though the police have made inquiries all over, the. colony, nothing was heard -of him until last week, when Travel's, who has enticed the boy away, was arrested for horse stealing at Ahaura, West C »ast. He stated that the boy was living at the House of one Mac Don ..aid. His parents', who despaired of seeing them again, were informed and instiuctions have been sent to the Ahaura police to bend the boy to Christchurch. Mr A. Gr. Howland, coachbuilder, has ju-t completed a bath chair, which he intends offering as a present to Sir Julius Yogel, who wishes to obtain a handy conveyance to take him from his residence to the House of Representatives. At the half-yenily meeting of the Southern' Cro>s Petroleum Company to-night, Mr Spackman, chairman, stated that No. 2 bore was down 710fc. Dunedin, Sept. 11. The Borough of South Dunedin took a poll to-day for a LIO,OOO loan. Only ten voted against it, and it was affirmed by a majority of over 120.