LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1166, 29 July 1885, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

,(From our oivn Correspondent.) Dunedin, July 28th. The «F. JP.'a not agreeing, .the second charge agaiDst Hutchison was dismissed. Messrs D. Reid, Hutchison, M'Donald, and Anderson, were nominated to-day for the Bruce seat. i A hundred and fifty natives have assembled to Btop the contractor for the Rotorua railway from proceeding to lay the permanent way, alleging that they f haye not been compensated for the reserve taken. They are building a barricade across the line.

Joseph and Selina Moore, the son and daughter-in-law of 1 the old ' couple at Wellington who were supposed to have been poisoned, were brought up at Wellington to-day and remanded. The Waikatb Cheese and' Bacon Factory Go.!s report shows a loss of £222 for •the year.— 7447lbs cheese were made in that time. Auckland, July 27th. William Henry Wakatam, cordial manufacturer, Dock-Btreet, Freeman's Bay, surrendered himself to the police at the station for the attempted murder of his wife. She had been drinking, and.

demanded money, which ho Refused. A squabble ensued, which ended in her being found outside in the back yard with a wrihnd on her head, from' which she ia unconscious and partly " paralysed. A fatal termination is feared. Wakatam Bays sllfjjf (assaulted him: with an axe first, attdW;the struggle bbth. fell down the back-doorsteps, and thus she got wounded. Wakatara was formerly of Dunedin, and was also a warder over Native prisoners at Mount Cook, Wellington, in 1879.