THE OTUNAKE MURDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 27, 3 December 1880, Page 3

THE OTUNAKE MURDER.

Oi'unake, 3O':h November. The native prisoner Tuhi was visited by the Coroner, Mr WilsoD, and Mr Hursthouse, the Native Interpreter, this morning, when he voluuteered the following statemen t : — <« I left Opunake without any intention of committing any crime, but to look for a horse on the other side of Te Ngamu. I met Miss Dobie, and I got off aud tied up ivy horse and followed her back. "When I overtook her she was frightened, an>l took six shillings and fourpence from her jiocket nnd gave it to me. I thon took out my pocket koife, and holding her by the shonlder with my left hand, s< u< kit in her ('iroat. She fill down, but was not dead. I then dragged her to the first Sax bush, and as aho struggled I cut her throat again. I then dragged her to another flax bush and afterwards to where she was found, where she died." A manufacturing wireworker, in an advertisement, invites the public to come and see his invisible wire fence, /. lady for the first time listening to the " still small voice " of a telephone remarked : " Good gracious it sounds Hke one's conscience."

That Is T lie Questi n— lt ate Instructor of Volunteers : " Shure now, ill Jenkins,, yeare late again. Now I ask you, sor, where should 'we be, Bor, if everybody came half an hour behind the rest ? ' If the yjun^ womnn who sends us the poem, " Our thoughts are far to sweet fur words," had stopped with that much, we would have been too gallant to h ive disbelieved her ; but when she wrote sixteen verses of it. it looked a little as if the poor girl were mistaken. Chick On Chicks.— A little fellow, on turning over the leaves of a 6crap book, came upon the well-known picture of some chickens just out of their shelll Ho examined iho picture carefully, and then, with a grave, sagacious look at the lady who sat beside him, slowly remarked, ' ' They came out 'cos they was afraid of being boiled." Mrs Langtry is no longer called the Jersey Lily ; society has given her another pet name — " The Amber Witch." She is said to be lovelier than ever, and is gazed at in public as if she were a queen or a prirua donna. At the Atalanta fete, where she wore a gown of old-gold satin trimmed with shaded poppies, one old lady seated herself opposite the Amber Witch's stall, and deliberately taking out her opera-glasses stared at the famous beauty for an hour. The Cultivation ov Tea.— A project is on foot, and will soon be made public here, which, aß. far as I know (writes the London correspondent of the Ota go Daily Times), ie quite novel. It is to form a company in Scotland for the cultivation in North New Zealand of the tea plant and the silkworm. One Mr William Coohran, of Perthshire, has it in haud. He has bee D,1, 1 believe, a tea-grower in China, and is satisfied, from hia study of tho subject, thut North New Zealand is well adapted for both of theee industries, and thut they can be successfully carried ou together. I have reuson to kuow that Mr Cochrep linn been in communication with Dr. Hector upon the subject, and that the scheme will be before the public erelong. , ;