To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 122, 30 April 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(BY TELEGRAPH) ; (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christohorch, This Day. - - A. portion of tho railway station was successfully illumiaated by the electric li<rbt on Saturday. Inspector Fender and half a dozen cnnstables and upwards of a hundred civilians formed a search party for the body of Mr Lilly. They started for the Port Hills yesterday afternoon, and have not yet returned. The weather is cold and wet. Dunbdik, This Day. A most impudent theft was committed m Princess-street on Friday evening. A recent arrival named John Graves stole a dozen tweed hats from the shop door of Mr Masters, hatter, and shortly afterwards attempted to dispose of them to their owner. He I was given m charge, and on Saturday was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The miners at the Walter Park coal mine have struck for an ar.vance of 6<i per ton. Upon the present state of the output it is stated that the miners have no inst cause for complaint, as good workmen have been able to earn as much as 13s per day of eight hoars, and ordinary men from 8s to 10s. fine directors have decided not to comply with what seems to them to be an unreasonable demand. Auckland, This Day. The associates of the Young Women's Home met Lady Jervois at Government House by invitation, when Lady Jervois and Miss Jervois £aV3 very interesting information about the kindred institution m Adelaide, and various plans were discussed for increasing the usefulness of the Auckland institution. At the annual meeting of St. Stephen's Orphans' dome, Bishop Cpwie suggested that the Cosfcloy estate should not be sold, bub valued and divided among tho institutions benefited," thus securing the unearned increment. GREYMocTHjvThis Day. Hitherto the connty has let it's tollgates by tender. A new plan bjasbeen: adopted, and on Saturday three were put up at public auction. There resulted a surprising success. The 'three tollgates fetched £1540, as against £10C0 for which they were let last year. There were numerous bidders and keen competition. The two principal tollgates are on the Keefton Koad at Ahaura and Arnold. Kumara, This Day. ; The Railway Commissioners arrived, at ten o'clock on Saturday nighty and visited the diggings and country on Sunday morning. They proceeded to Eokitika m the afternoon, and will return here this evening to take evidence, on the proposed route ; of the East and West Coast Railway, and will then proceed to Greymontb.