To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 116, 24 April 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(By Trlbgraph.) press association".) Thahbs, This Day. Sergeant-Major Kellv has received" the foUowing^elegram from Constable Low, of Paeroa : — lt is reported here that the boy carrying the mail between Thames ani Taaraaga has been drowned m the Waihi Kiver, and that the horses and mails hare been swept away. A constable starts at onca for Waihi. New Plymouth, This Day. M .8. Daniells was brought upon remand, charged with wilfully setting fire to a dwellinghousa on the nigutof the 4th April. After several witnesses hap been examined, the case was adjourned till Wedaesday next. Christohurch, This Day.; Mr Stanley, of Stanley and Darbyshire's opera troupe, who ha 1 several years' experience m diamond buying m Sou'h Africa, has pronounced three stones shown him by Jacobsen, and said to have been found at Atford Forest, to be genuine diamonds. Timaru, This Day. At the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Timaru tferald/a dividend of 8 per cent, was declared. ' Dunedin } This Day. The Wain case was continued at the Police Oonrt yesterday and several wit* nesses were examined. It will be con* tinned on Wednesday. Tho brother of the boy who died was one of the principal witnesses to-day, and his evidence was given m an unsatisfactory way and he contradicted himself about the number of beatings his brother received from his parents. At Roxburgh the jury m the murder case found a verdict that Ah Chin was murdered by some person or persons unknown. .'.... Auckland, This Day. The Governor having received letters from the northern chiefs that the Kaipara meeting had ended, and the natives dispersed to their homes, he has decided nob to visit the north at present. News from Ohinemutu states 'that an event affording considerable amdsement and consternation occurred on Saturday. The statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, lately presented to tha Arrawas, was being placed m position m Tamanukapna, when a cirt arrived with an escort of police, who took possession of the statue, and carried it off to the lock-up. No reason is given for the proceediags. ■ Wellington,- This Day. Capt. Russell and VTr Wilson, M. H.R's., members of the West Coast Railway Commission, left by the Manapouri for Christchurch yesterday afternoon, where they join their colleague, Mr Napier Bell, and at once comoience their work. Mr J. G. Grey, of the Hansard staff, has been appointed Secretary to the com** mission, and accompanies then*. The annual meeting of tha Wellington Shipping Company lapsed for wane of a quorum. The balance-sheet shows a credit balance of £3770, out of which the directors recommend payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.