To-day's DespatcHes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 150, 2 June 1883, Page 2

To-day's DespatcHes.

(UKITED PBESS^ASSOCIATION.) Ojpunake, This Day. • Mr Courtney who is going home unofficially, with a view of inducing cmi« gratioa to this part of the colony, addressed a public meeting here last night: when resolutions were unanimously passed that it ia desirable .that Mr Courtney should go home, and that the Government be requested through Major Atkinson to give him one thousand, copies of the.. Crown,, Lands guide {and; one thousand -copies of the'Wesfc' Coast Reserves Leasing Regulations fordis~' tributions to Farmers' Clubs and read* iog rooms throughout Great Britain. , ... . .... Auok^anDj; JMEay 2. (\ The'picture- by Rechter, presented to; the Auckland citizens by Sir G. Grey'; has been, it i 5..,-. m - his family ; upwards of 200 years, and was painted] to the order of one of his ancestors. MrMaekelrie, of London, has more; pictures, which he has bought for the Auckland Art Gallery, but delays sending them until proper arrangements are made; for their sa.fe.custodylbereAii At the annual meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, the committee's report regretted that the operations during the past year were not altogether successful, and that there was a great falling off m membership. The [Licensing Committee of Christchurch North-west Jiave come to the conclusion that "eleven o'clock licenses are the most suitabls for all parties. I'he Benevolent Institution has resolved to ask the ministers of religion $0 make November 11th, a Charity Sunday. .-,..:. : ThigrDay^ The Boari of Governors of Wellington College has resolved to memorialise Government to .; make .provisions , for the establishment; of ,B... Uniyersity College m Wellington similar to those long established m; JDanedin jand Christ* church, and the one recently inaugurated m Anckland. It is notified m the Gazette that cotton; yarn , liu'e'n yarnp jiite •yarhVand woolen yarn, for use m the manufacture of carpets and coat hangers;, for use m the manufactnre of coats, shall be exempt from duty upon importation into the colony. A .fire broke out m an unoccupied cottage, m Adelaide - Road at 2 o'clock this morning* and had it not been for a brick wall separating the cottage^, Mrs; Scoones and family would probably have been burnt to death. ! Mr Oafkeek, the missing surveyor has turned up all right at Urenui near Taranaki where he had gone for pro-i---visions.