To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 166, 19 June 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

j UNITED PRESS AS3OCIATIOIT. | ; :.. : • Auckland, This Day. All che cases a^ainat John Purcell for selling water m casks to publicans for whiskey were dismissed, and the prisoner discharged. j Fifty rrien have been engaged here by Danaher, contractor for the Wellington^MVqawatu line. : J At the inquest on the body of Percy ! Snjith^ wa<;chaiak.e r , who poisoned- hioi'B^f, a verdict of feVo dese was returned, i WiSLLiNOTONr "Thiff Day. . j The Rev. R, Gofiey preached at St j Mark's 'Ghurch last night on the Sali yation Arjny, and bagged his congre-1 gation to'-fafave nothing? to do with it. | ~ , Nelson, This Day. ■"• The Lyell niatder)cas.e. t wasL b^iall day jresterday. There are still ten witnesses to be examined for the prosecution. ';■ ! ;; ; Chibstchurc?, This Day. Jqmes. Swiadle was yesterday fined £10^ or m default one msnth's imprisonment, for practising as a, solicitor. He pleaded that he coold; not earn enough by his trade of watchmaking^ to support himself and family. It was stated in ' Court that during the ; last six months one per cent, of the declarations filed by insolvent labourers and smalt storekeepers weredone by the accused, and 70 per cent; by irregular | practitiqiiera. ' - : WELLiNGTour, This Day. i The barques Estrella and Dpra^ frdm Lon lion, are at the Heads. • * i Nelsok, This Day. i : The barque Conference, from Ne^r-^ j cas.tle, grounded on the pisihtiof the ; Boulder Bank while coming into'hirr bouf, but floated off unassisted and nniujared','and is now berthed alongside the wharf. '," " : / '''' ' lL ' '"'." : : ,' : ;i ; ■■ ; •' - L T>axfepiTir; This : Da'yi : ' There are excellent t»ports'froui the diggings at the head of the Ukei !i; One !> &ur6pean party divided ip'ef -week a taan. . T '''-''' The : manufacturing cbafeotioheraflof Dunfedtti hkve agreed to raisithwpribe of confectionery. _ i "' ' rhe^onroiißion: a 6f : -inquiry Aatb the Danedin'gaol management begins sitting on Wddnesday; It ip tifoblßtettia^ the inquiry wilt be public."^ I At a meeting of publicans, brewers, e^c, to-night, it was decided to petition Parliament for a return to the nominated licensing beaches. Seven thousand carcases of frozen mutton are ready for the lonic. She> will take ten thousand from here. ;