SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 888, 19 February 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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"WELLINGTON. "February IS An ititliteey stranger wandered Int«» rlie vrontshed on "the wharf on Saturday afn;ri'oit, ami composed himself to sleep. Tin? AwU were locked tt[> at the usual fi'irtr without his presence bein-.; observed. and inr was a cl-Sf prisoner. Pillowed ..n tli" soft vvo.vl, ho slept soundly and v.vll until Nature rtr:«iit»l««l him of the approach of the breakfast hour, when he awoke. The moat careful examination failed to show hint a loop-hole of c.wip-. and his tottd ei:"% ami batterings on the door fatted t>> attract attention outside. Resigning himself to his fate, he again lay down to sleep, and when the wharf inert came- t«> their w-.rk yesterday moriiirer ttiev found him still wrapped in ir-nie slumber. On being liberated lie did the fas: est 100 y:t V cU t.ft" refol-i t.- the nearest eating estaWuEuitenfc. where he set tomtit earnest, atid at oile tural ate enmi-.'li f'-f

,<;pper. br.'.'.kfasf, ditiiier. tea. and s>re:il.--fasi. The eatiti--h"t:se-keeperr.to..d a-j.-i-.ast nut:!, aa- Fie watted for hi.-; fotr.-Ji meal and ei;fitli enp. of tea. the stranger explained Ei.e;v ruaEien-t »C«nd. A raid is being made on the<.'</<i.' mi<„n'.of Wellington. The statement that ilie police intetiii to prosecute the keepers of disorderly liousea in the city has had the effect of "closing many of the delis, ai'd the po-ttye- liare had considerable diilicuhy in sorvittL' the sttniinonscs which have t>e«n iistted. CiinLSTCHUKfiI. Fehrnarj- 11'. Tlu> Fire l;ri«rule have in all received ].-•-'. hi recoi'iiition of their services in c-'tmecttwn with the late tire.