To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 112, 19 April 1883, Page 3

To-day's Despatches.

;.; ; ; (BY TELEGRAPH.^ \ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION .") __ Wellington, This Day. Major Edwards, J. P., who has been on a visit to Samoa as agent for Mr W. J. Hunt, in an action brought by the latter against Sir Arthur Goidon, has just returned .to Wellington. When Major Edwards left the island evidence was still being taken in the case before Mr W. B. Churchward and the English Consul as Commissioner. Mr Fletcher Johnston appeared" on behalf of Sir Arthur Gordon; and : Major Edwards on behalt of Mr Hunt. Half a dozen witnesses, including the King of Tonga and r the German, Consul, had been examined "up to that time, and it is probable that the inquiry is now concluded, ancf that the evidence will shortly be received in Wellington, where the. case as to bb r tried. fi , , c I '' 'Ten^of the inenbf the ship Warbcek, from London,, have arrested for mutinous conduct. :,-'-'>'.>.:i"i .: Timabu^ ThisrPay. \ A man named George Brien wae thrown . from his horse . L near Saltwater Creek last night, and, his foot getting entangled in. the stirrup, he»was dragged some distance, and was picked up in an, insensible condition by a man wjio was .with. him. He was conveyed to hie 'home; where he.expired this morning. • ,'j ■]■■■-:■ >' Uamabu, This Day. nr^^A farmer, named. Thomas Richmond was killed yesterday at Georgetown. Two wheels of a threshing machine passed over his body. The ifteMr JEdmond Gostello's estate Pj^eAtimated at £135,000. It is to be divided "amongst seven' public institu^- ... tions. . . Endeavours will be made to get , the legacy duty, over £10,000, revoked j astbb amounts are going to public institutions. He only made his will two (1 flights hefoire hisdeath. ; j - „ ,