LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1186, 27 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION), WELLINGTON, Oct. 28. It is cxpeoterl that the pwlioulars in connection with the proposed land sales by the Government will bo published this week. In consequence of u laruc portion of Otago lands not fulling into the hands of the Government uptil next March, the sales in that district will, of course, be delayed, but it is understood that the surveys are completed. It is expected that a meeting of tko various volunteer corps in tho district will bo held shortly to discuss the new volunteer regulations. At tho Resident Magistrate s Court to-day Herman Hempton was charged with forging and uttering 5 promissory notes, and Was committed for trial on all the charges.

AUCKLAND, Title Day. John Bradley, formely a slaughterman at Fisher's, has been lost in the bush near Dai'gaville. Search parties have been out for weeks. He was in a state of dottrtnm tremens.

The body uf a man about 40, has been found in the harbor. His name is unknown, but ho looks like a seaman. The Native Minister leaves on Friday for Alexandra to meet Tuwhiao. Tawhiao and To VVheoro arc cxpectud to pilot their own canoes in the great war canoe race at the Devonport regatta. An association for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act has been formed here. An application was made at the VX aste Lands Board yesterday for the lease of the foreshore south of Munakuu for the purpose of qtilising the iron sand deposits. In the CQwne of tho dissuasion, ft trauapiM U

is intended to erect smelting works at Onehunga, and the promoters have imported a practical man from America. The Board decided to recommend the Government to grant a lease. Both victims of the Pokeno shooting case are likely to recover. The ball fired at the father passed through the lower part of the scalp, grazing but not fracturing the skull. It was extracted on the other side of the head. The bullet on the son’s head was fired too low to touch the brain, and is lodged somewhere in the upper part of the face, but the exact locality has not yet been ascertained. Both are perfectly sensible. The parricide’s mother is dead. The father was formerly a draper in London and came out with some means intending to commence farming. The son had been engr ged since his arrival with theatrical company’s, going under the name of Bertie Long. Latterly he had been engaged to a young lady at Taurauga, and it is supposed that his recent visit to his father was for the purpose of obtaining money to marry. The refusal is believed to have led to the desperate deeda While at Tuuranga young Long was most abstemious but of an e ccentric and very excitable disposition.

WAIROA, This Day. The bar is completely blocked. A party of men are now going down to open the entrance. The river is very full. BLENHEIM, Thia Day. Mr Dodson, M.H.R., addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents last evening. His speech lasted nearly two hours, and besides reviewing the work of the session, he dealt at some length with the question of the extension of the main trunk line of railway via the East Coast, and in justification af his vote on the No Confidence motion. A vote of confidence in Mr Dodson was carried unanimously. At the inquest held on the body of Dr. Riley, of Havelock, tho medical evidence showed that death resulted from an apoplotic fit, and a verdict was returned accordingly.