To-day's Despatches.
(by telegraph.) (united press association.") Auckland, This Day. The barque Mary Mildred is a wreck at Tauhau, Helensville, and has been abandoned to the underwriters. She had 400,000 feet' baulk timb3r on hoard, most of which will probably be saved. Napier, This Day. Both Volunteer companies have now enrolled to the maximum strength, and recruits had to be refused. Wellington", This Day. The property-tax receipts amount to £62,000. A cable message have been received by Captain Rose, local manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, to the effect that the British King, the first of the Company's drect line of steamers, left Gravesend for this port on Fridaj last.
Christohurch, This Day. The financial committee of the congregation of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church intend to fake active steps" to obtain possession of.the church, and, m the meantime, they will hold service m some other building.
Two fish have been caught m the Opehi River, which are thought to be American Salmon, The male weighs 19ibs and the feimle 151bs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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171To-day's Despatches. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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