To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 155, 9 June 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(UKITED PBESS ASSOCIATION) CHRiSTOHtfRCH, This D*y. Last niSht a six roomed house situated' in' Sydenhain, and occupied b]y ! James Newman, was burnt down and only patjt of the furniture was saved. Mr Newman had £122 m notes m the house, and he estimates his loss at Jg2so above the Insurance. > This afternoon a girl 2 years old, daughter of a laborer . named Hursley, lmog at Waltham was drowued-in a tub, of water, which' she 'fe!l into m the absence of her mother. . - ■-.'■ Auckland, This Day. . The meat seized at Pascoe's butcher, (800ibs.) was coademoed by the Magistrate as unfit for human consumption. A bullock, bought at aucfton : for 4J2 12s 6d, could not walk from th'e pen to the saleyards, and had been killed where it lay. - .; >:*•>■ GiSBoHNH 1 , This Day. .The Poverty Bay settlers- are taking active steps to gain information re the formation of a company ~to preserve meat for export, establishing a soap and bandle works, and -a bone-crushing .mill. TiMARir, This Day. j The Salvation Array have secured premises here, and open .a twelve months' campaign on Saturday. V : Weliikotow, This Day. The Govornment telegraphed to the Agents-General the drownin* of Firth, the English tourist, at Ohinemutu, and a reply has been received asking for details' of the sad occurrence. These have been embodied m a cable message and transmitted. :■ i The charge brought against Mr J. Monteith, chemist, for shipping goods alleged to be dangerous was dismissed. !i The information laid at Carterton against Joseph and Eli Strawbridge for receiyihg stolen goods, complete'y broke down, and the accused were discharged. In one or two other cases the informal ; tions,were ; withdrawn, ; , ;v ; ; The Weilingtoa woolen manufacturing Company was ; registered this morning. The Governor inspected the Government printing office while the building was lit with electric ligbc,and -expressed his satisfaction at the result obtained by the use of electricity as an illuminator. Bis remarks on the building itself j however were not complimentary,^ it is ' incoavienient and unsuitable 1 for , the purpose of which it ia used. \ ''- -■■■■ Dunedin, This Day. .: George Woran, whose unoccupied house was burned down at Kaikaria recently, was charged with arson at the Police Court to-day. The evidence showed that kerosene was smelt about the burning hbnse/ and that it had been spilt over part of his clothes. He was. remanded till Friday next* •