To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 104, 10 April 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedix, This Day. Mr Milner Stephen gave another public exhibition of magnetic healing on Saturday afternoon at the Lyceum, and his remarkable success m many case 3 excited no small amount of comment. The exhibition was, on tin whole, far more striking than his first one, although, as before, he proved unable to produce perceptibly beneficial results m many instances. In others, however, his instant success was nothing short ot marvellous. A bottle was picked np by a boy named Jones at the Ocean B?ach on Saturday, which contained the following, wr tten on a piece of brown paper : — " The schooner Hawk wrecked at the Snares. Me »nd my Oiate on the largest island. Send relief at once. — Captain Andrews." So , far aa the authorities can learn, there is no schooner Hawk trading on the coast, and ifc is many years sines a schoonei of that name came here. Then there are only two Captain Andrews's known m JSew Zealand, and neither of them is '

connected with a schooner, and it is considered highly improbable that the bottle Bhould hare drifted from the Snares, which are to the south of Stewart's Island, to the Ocean Beach. For these reasons the police authorities are inclined to vegard the matter as a hoax. The local Refrigerating Company are energetically pushing forward freezing operations for the next shipment to England. This will go per Fens tan ton, which is expected herd on the 20th inst. She will take about 9000 carcases, of which 4500 are already frozen. It is intended shortly to give an exhibition of a game of chess m aid of a local charity, the chessmen to he represented by living persons. Two of the best players m Danedin will conduct the game. Captain Jones, of the Rotorua, haa gone Home via Melbourne to bring out the Union Company's new "express" boat for the New Zealand passenger coastal trade, the Takapuna. The Company intend building a steamer specially for the Fiji trade, and Captain Joneß will advise the Company's engineer at Home as to the requirements demanded m a boat for the purpose. The steamer Port Jackson was successfully launched to-day. She is the first steel steamer built m the colony, She has been built to the order of the Port Jackson Steam Shipping Company, and is intended to be used as a passenger boat m Sydney harbour, and also, when occasion may arise, as a tug. She is rOOft m length, with a beam of 17ft 6in, and a depth of hold of 9ft 3iri. Christohurqh, This Day. „ The result of the inquiry into the narrow escape from collision at Southbrooke has been the reinstatement of the Kaiapoi stationmastec aal guard of the down train, as the fault lay with the management rather than- with the officials. In future, alteration m the traffic has to be sent and acknowledged by telegraph, verbal lnsVuctions being dispensed with, o Napier j This Day. . The totalisator case has been settled. Mr Cohen, defendant m the late action, who gained the day on the ground that, he was the wrong party to sue, sent the amount m dispute to the Jockey Club to pay over to the plaintiff or not as the committee pleased. . The committee decided to pay the money into Court. Auckland, This Day. Daniel Scanlon, publican, has been arrested on a charge of perjury ia con~ nection with the recent Sunday trading prosecution m Cambridge. In the native ejectment case, E. B. Walker pleaded guilty to forcible entry. The other defendants were discharged by Mr Justice Gillies, as servants acting under Walker's orders. Walker was ordered to enter into his own reoog* nizancesof £500 to appear at the next sittings of the Court for sentence. If m the meantime it was shown that the natives have had the claim for damages satisfied, the fine imposed would be just sufficient to vindicate the law and clear the expenses of the Qoyemment. In the event of their claims not being settled, it would then become a matter for the consideration of the Court; Nelson, This Day. A lad named Holland had bis thumb and palm of his right hand shattered by an explosion of half a poqad of gunpowder with which he and five other boys were playing. Wellington, This Day. The schooner Hannah Barratt, which is reported as missing, is insured iD the Victoria Office for £500. No further information has been, received about: the yessel. - ;