To-day's Despatchs.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 January 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatchs.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) ; PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington. This Day. , Mr Hateley has accepted the position of handicapper for the coming meeting. | It is announced that J. Kitchen & Sons, Wellington, and McLeod Bros. Dunedin, soap and caudle manufacturers, have amalgamated their concerns, and intend to ,fprm into a company to work the business of both branches. Nelson, This Day. A young 1 man named T. H. Lightband, was arrested here on the arrival from Wanganui, on account of a threat-* ening telegram set by him to his father; A loaded revolver was found in his trunk* The heat here yesterday was very oppressive, beiaej 125 degrees in the sun. / At the Education Committee meeting of householders, it was resolved that an evening school for youths who have left school should be provided. ■' i Havelook, This Day. Mrs Maher, who was injured by a fall of earth at the Mountain Camp Creek, died last night at 10 o'clock. William Davis, who was injured yesterday by falling through a bridge, died at 3 o'clock this morning. . Greymouth, This Day. The. long period of fiue weather has at last broken. Christchurch; This Day. I Messrs Cunningham and Kent have succeeded in making a dynamo machine. They have encountered many difficulties, and the first machine they made was so strong that it burned itself up, or something of that; eort. The present ', machine takes a four ahorse engine to drive it. ; : ; . . DuNEMN, Tbis Dav. By the outgoing mail to-day the immigration department here forwarded j ito Wellington applications under „ the j nominated system of immigration, for 108 souls, equal to 90 statue adults; j