TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 127, 4 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Wellington, May 2. A herivy southerly guie is now blowing with a heavy rainful, and m conspquonce 1 the races? have been postponed until Monday, but is considered probable that the course will be m too wet a condition to race them even then. The public accounts are now ready. The year's balance on ordinary revenue and expenditure on accounts show a surplus of .£22,003. This Day. Shaw-Savill and Company have been advised that the Arawa has not been chartered by the Admiralty as reported but will leave the colony on her advertised date. John Wilson alias Coburn convicted and sentenced at Blenheim, on a charge of rape, received his first whipping this morning. The flogging was 25 lashes and was very severe. Tijtaru, May 2. A man named Woods attempted to commit suicide on Saturday by lying down m front of an express train as it was leaving the Timaru station. The train was only 4 feet away from Woods when stopped. He had previously had a prohibition order taken out against him. A very heavy gale swept over the district early yesterday, but so far no damage is reported from the back country. Dunedin, May 2. The stationmaster at Burkes, while returning home at 2.40 yesterday morning, perceived a flickering light though j the casement of an empty house which adjoins the one occupied by him, and m which his little son was sleeping. On looking he found a quantity of waste saturated with oil alight m the corner of ] the house. He instantly kicked it outside, and hurried into his house and removed the child to a place of safety, and then succeeded m putting out the nre. Pobt Chalmers, May 3. The stone lighthouse at Taiaroa Heads is to be taken down and a wooden one built. This is rendered necessary by the construction of the defence works. An accident occurred at the Lyttelton railway station this morning, by which the shunting engine was damaged through colliding with a train on the main line. It is said that the man m charge of the engine was off it trying to open points, and that he ran back to the engine to stop it, but could not catch it m time.