TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2527, 16 May 1882, Page 3

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

SECOND EDITION,

NEW ZEALAND.

(peb punas assooiation.J WELLINGTON, May 16. Walter Wiltshire Vause, who shot himself last night, died at two this morning. A nautical Court inquiry into the collision between the Ladybird and Wakatu is proceeding. WAITOTARA, May 16. On Sunday morning, at four o’clock, a Native named Poharama Takorangi, belonging to Haipo, stabbed his wife and a man named Wini Poharama. Ho is now supposed to be lurking about the township, and steps ■will be taken to secure him, and prevent the recurrence of a similar nature. Poharama and the Native whom he stabbed are both chiefs. The wife received one stab, which is said to be a dangerous one, and tho man was stabbed in four places—on the right side, cheat, breast, and left loin. Little hopes are entertained of his recovery. Poharama'a house, which was destroyed, was a new one, and it is believed ho set fire to it while suffering from delirium tremens. The police are out searching for him.

>- NAPIEB, May 16. 11 Tho Jockey Club have arranged their o Steeplechase meeting on the Hasting# course !, for June 28th. Maiden Hurdle, one-and-a----h half miles, £3O ; Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase, three miles, £IOO ; Maiden Steeplechase, two e miles, £SO; Coronation Handicap, two miles, o £6O, The club has endorsed the disqualifle cation of Band wick’s owner and jockey. s TIMARU, May 16. f Throe bodies of the men lost on Sunday in 0 connection with recent wrecks have b 0 washed ashore near Whales Creek, an ? been conveyed to the Melville Mot°l» ** 1 they await an inquest. Two of them have f been recognised, but one is so horribly - > figured as to be beyond recognition. Emanue f Neilson, a Swede, formerly in the employ o , the Harbor Board, has a calm expression I and is uninjured. D. McLean, carpenter, of > the City of Berth (identified by J, Lynch), • boatswain of the ship, is recognisable, Out has been much knocked about. The third is • supposed to be the body of Martin Bates, a landing-service man, but ia unrecognisable with certainty. _ , Captain Mills is to be buried this afternoon with Masonic honors. The following are the correct insurances as far as known, in the colony :— City of Perth, Standard and Swiss Lloyd’s National, £SOO each ; Union, Australian Alliance and British and Foreign, £2OOO each; South British, £ISOO. Bendevue, Standard, £6OO ; Union, £250.