To-day's Despatches.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 139, 19 May 1883, Page 2

To-day's Despatches.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I Auckland, This Day. Major Withers, the officer commanding the district, is m a critical condition. He is suffering from bronchitis. Gne b'm !red and fifty tons of the first; instalment of tbe plant of thi Rotorua railway arrived by the Westmeatb. 8. H. Willinmson, and C. S. S. George, solicitorsi were charged with shooting native game out of season, and were fined 20s and costs. They pleaded guilty with extenuating circumstances, being misled by a telegrim from Wellington m the papers relating to the shooting season. Wellington, This Day. In connection with the recent fire at the Waihenaa Hotel, Edward Tolley has been arrested on a charge of arson, He w t s taken before aJ. P. and admitted to bail, himself m £400 and two sureties of £200 each. A meetiag is to he held on Monday to take the initiatory steps for forming a wollen factory m .Wellington. It is proposed to form a company with £100,000 capital m £5 shares. In a few days a portkn of the Government Printing Office will be lighted by electricity. Christohubch, This Day. Yesterday Harriet Dowey was committed for setting fire to a house at Halswell on April 2 ist, the property ofj Mrs Sabey. £ . ■....:./■ ■• > - ->-■•; ; Nearly 600 persons! have joined the j Blue Ribbion Army since the com! mencement of this week. .. . . Early yesterday morning three nineroomed houses m the Pound ...Road, Sydenham, were burned down. At 4_a.rti, Mr Brown's sawmills neir the gas works, . Sydenhani, were t all; burned. ; ■' '• Ddnedim, This Day. ■ ->■ { The appeal for subacriptions for the: Wild Deer passengers is riot being well! responded to. . ' ."■■' '.", .', ■ Mr It. B. tf. Twopenny. lt^te editor of the Christcharch Telegraph has been appointed to the editorship; of, theiOtago, Daily Times > aad . assumes ofiice m! September, j ' . ,— rRBBKroNj-This; iQay, j A petition will bis'forthwTtli lodged • against the eleotiohiof Mr Edward Shaw for Inangabua. Four : grounds arei alleged, two of which are said to bei fataloo his election, . <;. i' . - . ,