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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 830, 1 October 1870, Page 3

The Tauranga Relief Fund so far ? has exceeded £1,500. Mr Rae, a pawnbroker at the Thames, has been fined £%O for receiving a pledge from a girl under fourteen years of age. Colonel Gore Browne, formerly Governor of New Zealand, has been appointed Governor of Bermuda. A company is being formed at the Fijia to purchase four steamers of 60 tons, to be employed in collecting produce from the neighboring islands. The murderer "Fair (according to the Ararat Advertiser), some time previous to his execution, informed the Rev. J. Megaw that shortly after the first dispute he had with Amos Cheale, and about three years before the murder of the latter, he (Yair) had a terrible dream. He dreamed that he had killed Cheale, and that he was tried for the crime and sentenced to death. Time wore on and the impression the dream had made on his mind became erased, and was not even recalled by the commission of the act. The moment, howeyer, in which he was placed in the dock all the circumstances of his dream returned like a flash before his mind, The Judge, the Court, the jury, all were identical with the forms he had seen in his dream more than three years before. Vair had never been inside a Supreme Court, yet the moment his eye rested on Judge Williams he remembered at once the face and dress he had beheld so long before in his dream, and knew that the result of the trial would be fatal to him.

We recently mentioned the finding of a human skeleton at the Waitotara. The Wanganui Evening Herald supplies the following summary of the evidence adduced at the inquest held on Friday last:—"A few days ago Mr C. Durio ordered one of his men to set fire to some fern near the hou&e, and after the fern had been burnt off, ope of the men picked up some firewood, and came upon a heap of bones which proved to be a human skeleton. Dr Earle's evidence went to prove that there was a cut across the skull, possibly by a tomahawk, sufficient to .cause death. The greater portion of the hair had been burnt off, but the little remaining being of a light color, it is supposed to have been the body of a European. The right arm and leg were missing, with several of the ribs on the some side. After the Coroner had summed up, the jury returned a verdict that " the deceased had met his death by violent wounds, but there was no evidence to show how the wounds had been inflicted." From the appearance of the skeleton, it is supposed to have been lying there about eighteen months. —Evening i'ost.