TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 42, 17 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

; .(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Na-pieb,'-Tliursdiiy.-''There is great jubilation at tlie : y6iy! successful floating of the harboi 1 loan, ; , : Tbe weather is still unsettled,' ;with intermittent rains, but the floods have; subsided. , :,' : . '. : 1 A. most distressing; case of death from ] - exposure is reported from t Nprsewood . I A Mrs Jacbbseh, wife of a small settler { residing m a lonely cottage, left, on Moriday morning to get a cow out of- the ] bush. Her husband' was absent work- i ing on a distant contract, but her three' little children; were left at home with; strict injunctions not to leave the house \ until she returned. She did not corned back all night, and next day, "when, by' chance a neighbor went to the' cottage,! he.- found the children wild with ' excite- ' ment. Search-parties were organised, | aiv?t the bush was scoured, but at was not until this morning 1 that the. body of : Mrs Jacobseu was discovered about seven : chains from her house. • She had: then been dead some hours. -.-'•' Gisbprne, Thursday, The Directors of the South .Pacific Petroleum Company visited 'tlio worlis on Tuesday. A depth of 809 feet had been sunk. Oil was brought up by, the pump, anil the indications were considered very favorable.. It is believed that the true oil. rock will be struck at a depth of from 250 to 300 feet.: : •"/ ' Auckland, Thursday. At the civil sessions of the Supreme Court, Dr Caldwell. of Kawakawa. recovered , £50 damages against George Brewer, blacksmith, for slandering his professional 'ability m setting a leg of Mr Brewer's son. In the case, George Elliott, of Deniliquin, New South Wales, v. Thomas Hancock, brewer, for alleged libel published m " Eecollections of Life of Thomas Hancock," the judge summed up strongly for the defendant. A verdict was returned for plaintiff, damages £200. :[/■■' " William Hanson, of the barque Notero from Lytteltoh, lia's~been injure:! m disr charging cargo. The slings broke. The case is regarded aa hopeless. • The Rev. T. \V. Dunn has decided to resign his charge of the" district of Pukekohe at the end of the year, m consequence of the recent action of the Pres bytery relative to his lecturing tour m the South. •. The question of remitting port dues, £45, upon the Aorangi, came up before the Harbor Board. It was desided that the. dues be not remitted, as Bunedinhad been the first port of call by the steamer, where duties had been remitted. A jury gave a verdict of- £BOO against the Tramway Company for an accident by which Mr Northe lost his foot. Dudley Ward, a man employed on a building m Wyndham street, fell and sustained fatal injuries. A steam tug left yesterday afternoou to examine the wreck reported by the Eotomahana oil East Cape. Duneuin, Thursday. A man named John Bylield, while repaliine; the telephone lines fell through the skylight of a building over which the wires passed, and received rather severe injuries. The Mayor has forwarded to the Minister for Public Works a petition signed by about eighty of the unemployed. • .■■.-:•- I It is said that the recent- totalisafcbr dispute has led to the issue of a writ for .£2OOO for defamation of character. . ... Hokitika, Thursday* The Ross United G-old Mining Company haye .cleared up for the month. The returns are 2520z14dwt. .Owinsr-tp dry Aveathet the elevators at the Prince oc j

Wales' paddock are only working half t time, or the yield would have been much greater... ■ ; . . . Ashuurton, Thursday. : On Tuesday evening, Phillip Dolau, ■who i lived on the bank oE't'ia llakava Biver, mst his death under distressing circumstances. : Ifappbaivs that, m com- . pany with his sou, a lad of seven \vars, he \yfts engaged i;i iiauiiug firewood from tko spit rnnning between the' sea and tiie river. .About half-pa-st 4 o'clock, when the last log was baing huuL-d, the father notified that tho water was rising, and the. waves washing over tlie spit. He ordered his buy to go on before. The boy did this, and m a few minutes looked round and saw the h >rse stniygling against a wave, anl his f athar up to his . shoulders" m tho hg;>on. Not a sound could be heard 'out the roar 'of the sea, • aup the boy "looked away. When the poor lad looked round he could see no sign of his father. He says that when he saw the horse nothing but the neck and head couid be seen. The horse eventually managed to get' o tit, and went home,. but there was no chance for the j unfortunate, uuan, and up to 4 o'clock this j a'fterhoon the body has not been recovered. Wellington, Thursday. In the House Mr Micandrew presented a petition from Sir Julius Yogel, claiming compensation for servicos rendered m negotiating loans ; also m connection with the inscriptions of stock.