LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1134, 30 August 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[FEB UNITED FKESS ASSOCIATION]. NEW PLYMOUTH. , This Day. ’“.“■-“OJ’d corroapoudent of the Herald sends the following particulars of a murder. Two Tyroles, named Knoll, and Antonio Getnell, went up the Opunake road yesterday to see about some bush felling and were seen returning about half-a mite from Stratford. Getnell was seen passing through the town, alone, on his way home to Midhurst Park. One Mr Trigg, foreman for the Ngaire Road Board, while going up the Opunake road, found Knoll's body stabbed in the back and, abdomen, and covered with blood. He was in a reclining position against the bank, at the side of the road, about 5 minutes walk nearer Stratford, than where the men were last seen together. There were signs of a severe struggle having taken place, the victim having evidently fought hard for life. Getnell was arrested at Midhurst last night by Sergt. Cavill and constable Tapp. When Tapp approached Getnell, he exclaimed, “ An I suppose you have come to take me away for killing that man." Getnell, this morning, led the police to the spot where he had hid the knife, under a log close to where the deed was committed. Getnell is supposed to be mad. He was in a lunatic asylum some time ago. At the inquest on the ho ly of JKnolls a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Antonio Getnell, who has been comir itted for at trial the next sittings of the Supreme Court. He was brought last night and is now in gaol. DUNEDIN. This Day. letter has been received from Melbourne stating, with regard to Bennies’ Gas Machine, that the Railway authorities had had a machine erected at the Railway Station for a practical trial, with a view to the adoption of the new process on the Victorian Railways ;”and that the directors of the Melbourne Metropolitan Gas Company, lifter inspecting the Machine, are arranging to test tlie apparatus, with the intention s! treating for the right to use the process. McGill, draper, of the Arcade, was committed for 'trialjfor attempted ar»on. Hit defence was reserved. INVEBCARGILL. „„ This Day. 1 he Miners at Round Hill Diggings peti. tion tlie Inspector to locate a policeman there on account of the frequent robberies. It i, pointed out that there are 500 Chinese as against 40 European, on the field,, and that tlie former not only commit rohberiea, but assaults with impunity,[and that unless the miners take the law into their own hand, which inevitably means bloodshed, and which they wish to avoid, they have no option but to apply for police protection, CHBISTCHUBCH. Thia Day. Tlie Insurances on the |>loi|iarspt Hotel are —Norwich Union, fIOOOj Liverpool and London, i'soo. Nothing further is yet known, but tlie alarm and excitement are greater than ever. AUCKLAND. This Day. An attempted incendiarism occurred at Newton East Public bchool at 2 o’clock yesterday morning. The fire broke out near the meter, The gus was found turned on, but the fire was supprossed after going up the lining of two class-rooms, and melting the gas connection, Tb« Attempt to Shoot BorUr. Accounts of the attempt to asm,,inate Barlow are conflicting. One account says Barlow had been in Alexandra since Saturday, looking after horses left behind when he captured Wiuteta; having secured them, he spent yesterday in the poiqpany of Tu lawhxao, until his start for Auckland. Early yesterday, whilst drinking with some Natives, Wore separating one Native proposed the tuastj “ Kaliore Whiiata,” 'l’Ute put

Barlow on the qni vice. Shortly afterwards he went with Tu Tawhiao to get the horses out of the stable. Whilst opening the door two shots were fired at him ; one struck him on the breast, and passed through his coat and waistcoat. Barlow then drew his revolver, and fired two shots at a retreating Native, when Tu Tawhiao cried “I am shot.” Barlow, fearing he had killed Tu Tawhiao, desisted from following the Native, who thus escaped. Capt Gascoigne immediately turned out the Constabulary to scour the country, and search for the would-be assassin, but the search has been as yet unsuccessful. Another narrative says a man who was a friend of Barlow’s, and who was with him all day yesterday, says he was behind Barlow when the shots were fired, and thinks that Barlow, seeing someone outside the stable, or thinking so, fired the shots himself. The Natives say Barlow's coat was singed, which could not have been the case had the shot been fired from a spot some 20 yards behind, where the assassin is alleged to have been planted. Barlow has been closely watched since his arrival at Alexandra, and word was sent to Winiata’s friends of his presence on the frontier so soon after the execution of Winiata, which gave great umbrage to the Natives. Tu Tawhiao is greatly blamed for being in his company, as he could be no protection against the enmity of Winiata’s friends, who are determined on revenge. At Whatiwhatihoe a korero has been going on all day ; the general opinion being tlxat Barlow had been sent to cause trouble amongst the Kingites. Tawhiao’s absence at Kawhia is greatly deplored, as accounts of the affair are so contradictory. It has been suggested that experienced detectives should be sent up to Alexandra to investigate the circumstances.