To-day's DesDatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 125, 3 May 1883, Page 2

To-day 's DesDatches.

Cby telegraph."* (united press association.) Christohurch, This Day. King, a coloured man, with his' wife, occupants ot the restaurant burnt on April 23rd, have been arrested fo r arson. Harry Jackson, suspected of shooting at Mt John Deans » year ago, has been arrested on a charge ,of assaulting* another man. Ashbitrton- This Day. The weather has somewhatimprored, and the rivers are subsiding. With the exception ot damaging roads and fences no catastrophe has occurred. Timaru, This Day. The weather has cleared up> and the floods have gone dowji. With the exception of breaches m the railway line from Hinds to Wai mate, nob so much damage has been done as was expected. Railway communication between Christchurch and Dunedin will be completed to-night. ..;' . " r ! .j. '. ■ Oamartt, This Day. The rain has ceased, and it now looks as if it was going to clflar up. Railway communication with Timaru will be resumed to-day. DuNEDnsr, This Day. 1§ Thomas .Meek, an engine driver, was piling his engine at the main station last evening. He^was on the ground; and asked the fireman to move the engine. a little. The fireman seems to have misunderstood the request, for he moved the engine towards Meek, and it crushed him; against the coal shed. He was dreadfully injured, and, being taken to the Hospital, died within an hour ..or two. Auukxand, This Day. Munn'g Hotel, Kamo, and ; Cleary's butcher's shop have been burned down, the loss being £2000. Daniel Scallon, publican, has been committed for trial for perjury, arising outof the Sunday trading case. : New Plymouth, Thia Day. McOullum's store at Okato was burnt down yesterday morning. . Mrs - McCul* lum had a narrow escape of being burnt. The causo of the accident is not known. Nothing, not even tueir clothes, was .raved,-. Mrs McGullum being carried out of the house m her night-dres3.