LATEST TELEGRAMS

Waipawa Mail, Volume 5, Issue 469, 13 March 1883, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[From United Press Association.] Wellington, March 12. A heavy southerly buster set in again last night. Very heavy rain poured in continual torrents until this morning. The tides were also unusually high. A man named Robert Bolt attempted suicide at Waimoote yesterday by cutting his throat. He was found hidden away in the bush with his throat terribly hacked. Bolt has been committed to the Asylum. Auckland, March 11. The body of a woman was found early this morning floating in the harbor. It was identified as that of Susan Duner, a woman of indifferent reputation. Shortly afterwards a dingy was found floating with a man’s umbrella and a woman’s parasol in it. A seaman of the schooner Saxon named Charles Barker is also missing, and it is surmised that Barker and the woman whose body was found were in the dingy together. March 12. Typhoid fever is getting prevalent in some parts of the suburbs. The Rev. George Brown, of the New Britain Mission lectured last night in the Pitt-street Wesleyan church on savage life in the Southern Seas to a large audience. The inquest on the body of the woman Susan Duner was adjourned to-day, to procure evidence as to the missing seaman Barker, who is supposed to have been drowned at the same time. A woman named Eliza Dredritcht has told the police she saw Duner fall over the wharf, but she is so muddled with drink, that the police can make nothing of her statement. The schooner Queen was struck by lightning off Norfolk Island, but with trifling damage. O amaru, March 12. The body of a man named George Quail, a miner, was found in a water race this morning. He comes from Livingstone. Marks of violence were found on his head, and a handkerchief was tied tightly round his throat. It is supposed that Quail has been murdered. Christchurch, March 12. An influential meeting this afternoon requested the Chairman of the County Council and the Mayors of Christchurch and Sydenham to take steps to secure as a recreation ground the quarry reserve of 200 acres on the port hills, two miles from the city. A rifle range of 700 or 800 yards is to be leased at Hillsborough. A crew to represent the Union Rowing Club at the Wellington interprovincial contest, left by the Hauroto to-day. Dunedin, March 12. Advices have been received by the mail that three large steamers of 5000 tons each have been ordered by the Shaw, Saville, and Albion Co. from W. Bently and Co., Clyde, to be employed in the New Zealand shipping trade. They are to be fitted up in the best style for pas senger trade, and will have the electric light, &c., and also will be fitted with refrigerators for carrying meat in large quantities. They will do the voyage in 45 dayß. The Star to-night has the following rumour: —lt says that the police have brought to light a case of shocking illtreatment of a child by its parents. The child alleged to be ill-treated is a boy seven and a half years old. It is known that for several days the boy had his arms tied behind his back so that he was unable to move them in any way, and in that state he was looked up in an out house for hours at a stretch. During the stepmother’s temporary absence some neighbours gained an entrance into the house, and removed the boy, whose condition is said to have been pitable. He was in a high state of fever, and was suffering from inflammation of one of the lungs. One of the bones of the left forearm had been recently fractured, and apparently was unset, and his backbone has marks of recent bruises.