TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1029, 2 April 1884, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

I INTERPROVINOIAL. {Special to Press Association.) Auckland, March 28th. At two o'clock this morning a woman named Garrity, while drunk, fell from the upper Btorey window of a boardinghouse iv Albert-street, and fractured her skull and thigh. She war conveyed to the Hospital, and will probably recover." Wanganui, March 28th. ■ The first crop of hops grown in Wanganui was pioked this week, the crop being very good for the first year's growth. It is probable, now that it is known the soil is suitable for hopgrowing, that the industry will become more general throughout the district. Opunakb, March 28th. Yesterday 200 Natives, headed by Titokowaru, were turned back. Today [they came again, with a like result. Titokowaru asked Colonel Roberts, through the Native interpreter (Captain Messenger), what was the difference of allowing a certain number to pass through and debarring a lot. He was told he had received an answer to the inquiry on, a previous ocoasion. Titokowaru then beckoned his followers to turn back, when he addressed the Natives. They have now plenty of food, and as they are not permitted to pass through to Parihaka, Te Whiti has sent a large present of apples and other luxuries down. It is also said he sent down money. Some Pakehas here still talk of feasting the Maoris, and substantial promises of bread, meat, and beer have already been received. Nelson, March 30th. A, man named R. Skelton was found drowned on the mud flat yesterday. He was last seen at half-past ten last night, and it is supposed he fell over the breast- - work at high water. He leaves a wife and -three children. Christchubch, March 29th. Public meetings to protest against the new railway tariff continue to be held in various parts of the Colony, and a monster meeting is to be held in Christchurch this afternoon to consider a series of resolutions condemnatory of the tariff. Yesterday afternoon a man named William Lintel was killed at Lincoln, through a fall from a threshing-machine. His neck was broken. March 30th. Peter Martin, aged 14, while trying to get into a train in motion at Lincoln station, fell on the line, and the carriages passed over the body, mangling it fearfully. He died last night in the Hospital here. Eighty men were discharged at Addington workshops yesterday.