To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 184, 11 July 1883, Page 3

To-day's Despatches.

, (BY TKLKGRAPH.) m ■V ■' (TOUTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' Dunbdin, Tbis Day. At a meeting held to- da., of merchants and importers who lost goods m the railway shed fire, a legal opinion was received to the effect that the Go vernment mi«ht be held responsible fo> the value of the goods destroyed. 1 1 was decided to take action by roeans of a teßt case for a pm-ill amount. Auckland, I his Day. The New Zealand Insurance Company declare an interim dividend at tije. rate ot 3s per share for the half-year end.ng 31st May. A: boat contai. ing Andrew Coahshon and Edward Mills ,capsiz-d yesterday cfl Tupeka Point, Russell. A boat from the whale ship Robert MorH>on rescued Mills, who had been h>ldin* on to the boat for some hours. He had tried' to hold Coalishon <«n,- hut f.»il«d. Wellington, his Day. At the Mflgibtrate's X ourt xesterda* , Andrew Loasby, formerly an i>Hsist«n m a chemises shop here, was fin d £h< and costs for attempting to ioi wur.t m the steamei Hauraki =«. t-ottle • f nitriacid without marking its nature on thoutside of the package. : Vi . Wi stport, This Day. ; Captain Dyball,ot the baique Cek ti% reports that the brig JVloa W*s inGuaidV Bay on Sunday week, lhe Moa was 4U days, out from ; D .inedin to X n para . Both vessels left the bay on Wednesday last... IV ' 41 -'-\ " :■