To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 98, 3 April 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ;_£• Lyttblton, This Day. About 3000 carcases have been loaded on the* British King. The freezing compartment will soon be filled. The heavy weather is completely stop* pin sf work on other ships m port. The barqne Monarch, bound from Port -Chalmers' to Falmouth, while crossing the bar at Port Chalmers on Saturday, bumped five times. Finding she was making two or three inches of water, the captain made for Lytteltqn, and arrived early this morning. She will go into dock. - Wellington^ This Day. In consequence of the heavy gale the Governor did not start for Auckland this morning. He will . probably leave at 11 o'clock "to-nighfe. - * At the Magistrate's Court to-day Alfred Wakeford, landlord of the Bank Hotel, was charged with Sunday trading and fined. 40s and costs.* Wakeford, m his evidence, contradicted the whole 1 evidence for the prosecution, and at the ' conclusion the magistrate "committed him to" stand his, trial for perjury. i Mr Edward Shaw, who has been retained to defend those charged with illicit distillation at Palmerston North, leaves for there to-night. j | Dunbdin, This Day. Dr Von Haast has received the I | following telegram. :—" : Albany, April 2. Made successful ascent of Hoch* stetter Dome with a lady. It is much higher than Mount Darwin. Had splendid weather. Bivouacked five hours i above Green's fifth camp. Twelve hoars from there to the summit of Hochstetter Dome, Cloudless sunset on ; top. Descended m moonlight, jjahd reached bivouac at 8 am. next morning. Crevasses all the way, and much steep j.cuttings. , Mount Cook, on Green's route", is this year insuperable crevasses. Had ten fine days on the glacier. Did ' much trigging, photographing, and i sketching.— Lendentelt ." A young man named Joseph Sheriff is missing from take Takapuna district. I A number of Takapuna settlers are oui searching for him.. -...,.,.. We hear that W. S. Staite is now m Wellington, en route for Palmerston. During the passage of the Waihara i from Greenock to Melbourne, Alex. McDonald, assistant steward, was missed on the 11th March, and could not be found] although a strict search was made for him. He previously had been suffering from debility and it is supposed he either jumped or fell overboard some time during the previous I night, Auckland, This Day. At the inquest on Edward Me viinn, late M.H.R.'tor Waipa, who was found dead m his bed on Saturday, the medical testimony showed that deceased suffered from internal lession probably oi the brain. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned.