To-day's Despatches

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 141, 22 May 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches

. .(BY TELKOHAPH)^^ (UNITED PEBS3 ASSOCIATION-. )"^ AubKLAstoi This Day. ; Colonel Lyon has been^ appointed to succeed v Major Withers'^asfbflaoeV'commandinw the Auckland fYglaoieers. James [Thompson was^.found dead m tho snrvev camp at Waiau, OoromandfiJ. It is believed he died; of -heart diseased Napiisr, ( Tnis ¥ 'D;ay. Napier won the chess- matchT with Wellihgtoni by -two games to nothing, according to the decision of Mr Banbow, the Wellington captain.? ■ • su;?;?. . Arrange taents are being made toigive the Governor a ! hearty reception;; ;sv WellinqtouTj ThißDay. Government telegrams from Parihaka state that there was '■■ no attempt -oa-.'tne part of the natives tohold? a meeting on the 17th. - .-; 'i -.„,,* A meeting of influential citizens was held yesterday -afternoon i ; when 'resolutions 7 were' carried' favourable' to i the establishment of woollen manufaefcory m Wellington,^ with a: oapitaU of £100,000 m£s shares. The .nVme of the company is to be the Wellington Woollen ■ Manufacturing V '.Company, liimitedv-- ; - ■-. . -"-■ ii v ; nv •;.<(; 'ic-Ui< The Isabella .Anderson-^-' whicb is ashore at Hokitika, is likely-toV.be a total wreck. -i : 'fl M The %s.A ustralia, with the April English . mail, left._ San Francwco, for Aucklaad, on the 6tfi mst. ; one day later tbian timeit?ble : yat^i The City of New York, with- the Ap/il Colonial mails, arrived at^ Sari from Auckland, on the 17th insh, time-table date, ? "; ; ■•'-■'■,'Ui ?r . y ;f The Evening Post fnnd : for the.wlief of the widow ' and ! children; -/of thr late Captain Murphy amounts :fo close oa £200. -There are several; 'amounts yet tocome' in from Country 'places.'' i'.-j Christohukch, This Day. ; The Salvation Aftny last night' was ' • crowded, ■ but ipassed) off quietly, probably owing to the facfc that sevev al of the police r were. present:.' V The Blue Bibbon Mission closed laat night,' 1 EigKt.hundre.d atia nine persons have taken the pledge since the commencement. • g\?:;iV