TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 58, 16 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

♦ (FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellingt >n, Monday, 7 p.m. At a meeting of residents of Pahautanui on Saturday, a Comtnit*tee was appointed to collect statistics, &c, to lay before the Hailway Commissi' *n re the West Coast rail wayi ■ A Wellington deputation waits on the Comm'ssion to-morrow. A serious accident occurred in Manners Street to-duy A butcher's cart was standing opposite Scott's bakery, when the horse took fright and dashed down a side street, coming into collision with an express which got pretty well smashed up, and thm knocking down two men, injuring one severely. The injured man was at once taken to Hospital. The hearing of 'he charge of criminal libel against Ivess, proprietor •"i-shburton Mail, concluded on Saturday, when Ivess was committed for trial Tho Lincolnshire delegates are now at Hawera. A horrible tragedy occurred at Dunedin yesterday* A m*in named Dewar, alias Grant, was found dead, his wife injured beyoed hope of recovery, his child suffocated, and the bedroom on fire, a lighted candle havin<* heen placed under the bed. The injured woman in the Dune- ' din tragedy died this morning. Medical evidence goes to show that injuries to both Gran and his wife must 'have been inflicted while in bed asleep The papers urge the Government to offer a reward for the apprehension of murderer.