To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 51, 24 January 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

* j (by telegraph) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Patea, This Day. Harvesting is now general through* out the district and reports are coming m from ali quarters of the splendid condition of the grain crops. A considerably larger area is m grain this year than last, and 4he yield -is expected to be heavy. "The long continued drought, al« though favorable to the above, Is seriously affecting the stock breeder^ feed having become so Bcarce that m some instances cattle are being fed on hay intended for winter use. There is no appeorance of any change m the weather, and town residents are experiencing a great scarcity of water. A man named James Harris, wuile driving a reaper and jbindfer from WaDganui to Waitotara on Monday, fell off his seat when near th 3 end.of his journey, and one of the whfisls passed over his leg breaking phe bone below the knee. ... t ;>;;,; .He Was brought to the Patea /hospital. ••••■.• .:>. Wellington, This Day. It has been definitely ascertained that Mr Charles White, the abscpnder, did proceed to San Francisco. jSe landed at Honolulu, and spent the day m company with J. S. itebb, a defaulter, fibin Dunedin, after which he was lose sight of. , ' ' .' The ketch Emerald, which sank off the wharf at Kaikoura, has been floated, and arrived here to-day to receive repairs. " "