To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 110, 17 April 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(Br Telegraph.}. PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) Auokl and, This Day. At midnight a tremendous land slip occurred at the cliff at Point Bf itomart. near the centre of the ci ty. " The cliff was about 80 feet high, and against it Mr John Lamb for the past three years has been' Greeting a retaining^ wall and flour mill about 150 feet i a length 'by 50 feet high. The" cliff suddenly gave gave way ; ,aad about 2000 tons o( debris coming down destroyed a portion of the mill and covered the road w&y. A cabman passing at tha time had a narrow c cape. • Jt;hn Moore,, a . printer, is r reporfcei missing fro oi the cutter' 'LancashireLass at Whangamatp. He js' believed to be drowned. He left ' Sainsh'ary 'sHotel with his mate Perro to return W the cutter, and "was never again seen.. A constable has been despatched to in— quire into the circumstances. Two cases of alleged child abduction, are reported, but the police declined to interfere. ./Phe ; persons interested intend to institute private prdsecations, and have retained Mr J2. Hesketh., IVir Thomas Barnett wasfhrown from a DU ggy a* -^©wmar^et, and^asserjously hurt. The horse was frigKtened by an approaching train. • ! Captain Wright, ; of the Salvation Army, has announced' that the divisional headquarters for the colooy will be; formed either at Auckland or Danedin, and twenty stattous at centffes of population and elsew here..., . ; • Oamlrul This Day. Earnest Artn j y, a who was found parading the 1 streets with an axe last night, was arrested and lodged m the lock. up. He turned out to be a lunatic recently esciped from the Dunedinasylum. „.,.-■•:;