TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1487, 22 October 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PIR mriTBD PRBSS ASSOCIATION.) ' . Duhedin, Tuesday. . • Mr Boncioaalt feels obliged to state that the c)aimf of the lady calling herself Mrs Agpet Boocioaalt, and appar-. ently cabled from London to the Melbourne Age, are groundless, and that the proceedings are farcical. No lady ii entitled to bear his name excepting his wife recently married to him m Sydney. ■>''.. V.,, v -,' .': .-, .. V.' - The Harbor Board, have decided to proceed, with, quarrying operations at Goatlsland, notwithstanding that the Minister of Lands has instructed' a ranger to put a stop to them, i A sort of. intimation was given -by one of the members that the launch would be used to protect the, contractors, and it stated that a lorce could be put m the field sufficient to repulse the Defence Minister. W" : .-■;. -A deputation from Invercargill waited on the Prjßuaierthis evening respecting therailway rates between the Bluff and and between DonediD,,; and: InTsrcargill. The matter was argued at great length, and the Premier promised , that ■, the .General, Manager would -Tisit the' district - and report on 3 'hat could be done m the way of , reressing the grietances complained' of. ■ , ; ' v^ ;; '\TniAßi^ ;: Toesday. ■* -'Iftffn BesiJent j^ag^ira^ this morning, Annie Gardner, the complainant, id th^ recent affiliation ca»e,, herself r. Bloomfield, jwss charged by theLPphce with: wilful and- oorrapt ;per>; jury m connection with the sAid case, and remanded for seven days. She was admitted to bail on her.: - own > recognis- ■■ ancepf £l()0, and twosutetietof £25. The entries for the coining Timaru Agricnlioral ohow.'io be held on the 27th and 28th of tbii nipntb, are coming m very numerously, and the show pro; mises to'be on* of the best yet held. ' : .: -':■ '■' Aiil^aHpi'T^e^day. Bichard, Bowden and Thomas Dodd hare Dee'tfcommitlßd for trial for ' malicious .injury to.the property of a,.contractor named Joseph Leel ' ' In a papar read at the AickUnd Institute of New Zealand birds, Mr Reiacheks^strongly coodemded the importation of ,atoa^ and weasels, as in^rpduc- , ing pestii infinitely more difficult of «x---tirpation than rabbits. .-,.". . > ; Mr Thomas Peacock, member for Newton, addressed hisfconstituents, and rer^wied 't h,e; proceedings of the session; A rote of thanks and unbounded confidence was pjissed unapimbusly. ; ]■- •