To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 135, 15 May 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, This Day . W. C. Buchanan addressed his constituents at Carterton last night and received the usual complimentary votes. The passengers among whom the measles broke out on board the British Qu»en have been landed at the quaran« tine station. All the cases are of a very mild nature A man named Edward Burling was killed at Glencoe on Saturday by a fall of earth. Auckland, This Day. The Governor left m tbe Hinemoa this merning for a two days' cruise amongst the Islands aad the harbors m the Hauraki Gulf. Lady Jervois gives a Ball on the 24tb, A settler named Hodge, at Mon« gonui, has been committed for trial for rape on a servant girl at the Settlers' Hotel. The supposed Christchurch diamonds when tested rubbed away like glass, and did not bear the test. New Plymouth, This Day. A man named Matthew Clough was drowned m the Manganui River on Sunday. Chbistchurch, This Day. ' At the Resident Magistrate's Court Thomas Allen, 21 years, was sentenced to two months for vagrancy. He had been well off a year or two since, When arrested he was so filthy that he had to be " scrubbed down with a long»<liandled broom," aud bis clothes burnt. He ha i been mined by gambling aud drinking.