To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 241, 13 September 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

■ T~ ~. ■< — ■•• -v \ \ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland. This Day. The old independent. chapel, and parsonage it Hamilton, the property of the Rev. D. H. DaviSjWas.bumt dqwn yesterday. Most or the lurnitura ,was saved yesterdajf. The buildings^ere insured inthe New Zealand; pffioe r for ; £600. J, W*. Waller, shipowner, is endea* voring to make: arrangements with his creditors. .His liabilities c are ; > set down at £22,441, and his^asse.ts, at £8889. .•:•■/ -A. ;: _)uNEPIN O T_us Day. A fire at Tapanui last ; night destroyed the. shopß of Hagan, bootmaker, and Farqu"hi»r, tailor. Insurance, £200 : New Zealand • >£75, office not stated . - , ; „.-, • . , ; , Christchurch, This Day. Mr Montgomery wcrtesAo the Times this moruing.'stating Vhe. did not arrange with* Major ; Atkin_cn,-a8 stated, for no business to be done on the day of prorogation. ; j ;::(■! >? . Nbw PLYMoirrH f This Day. The steamer Mfcqgregor, which entered the Waitara, river ,pn the 2nd September, is detained there, and ia not expected to get' outT till the spring tides pot more, water on the bar, Welling-ton, This Day. Amongst the passengers for Sydney by the steamer . Wa-ratipu, which hit on Sunday, was Bishop Redwood, who has been selected tp preach the panegyric m the Catholic ' Cathedral oa the late Archbishop Vaaghan. Ashbubton, This Day. Mr E, 0. Wright, J-I.HR., haa resigned his seat m the Asbbaiton County Council j consequent . on - members not endowing his acdori'Te Extension of the Mount Somers railway. •'•" "../.,'.'. DurapijT, This Day. At the inquest on the chiid Braceley killed by the steam tram yesterday, the jury, without' Writing, found a verdict of accidental death. It was 'shown that the child came suddenly put from behind a passing dray, and th^.' at the ti me seeing a number _*©f children about the' tram, the driver had considerably reduced the speed. ..,. .^ , ;Nel_on, This Day. At the inquest on the human remains found on the sands, the body was identified | as that of William Reader, cockswain of the- pilot boat. The ml quest has been adjourned until Friday, but wilt- have to- be further adjourned till the return of Piiot.Lowe, who is now m Sydney. ' r _^bw's"'has"be"_n'-rei_eired that a man's skull has been picked up on the beach under Moutere Bluffs, fifteen miles from the sands. It i? not known whether it is the missing part- oi leader's body, but,, from the description, It is that of a man recently dead. . . ' , Christchurchi This Day. One. hundred and eight "applications have now been made at Addington for employment, and sixty»four men have been set to' work. An arrangement is now completed for giving work to all applicants at 28 6d per cubic yard ston* breaking, and 4s 6d a day other work.