LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1212, 28 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). WAIROA, This Day. Yesterday Wairoa in their second innings were all out for 33. The match was discontinued on account of the rain, and was resumed this morning. The Napier team went in for their second innings, with 63 to win, and obtained them with the loss of only 3 wickets, the Napier team, therefore, won by 8 wickets. The Wairoa men were in bad form after the entertainment and ball last night. Adam Hassell, a sheep farmer, living at Waihua, and a member of the Wairoa County Council, was killed yesterday by falling from the cliffs 300 feet high, while mustering on his run. The body has not yet been recovered. [per united press association]. AUCKLAND, This day. Major Harris received a unanimous vote of confidence at Otahvhu yesterday. Mr Bryce is expected to return from Rotorua to-morrow. Sydney Tawhanga has returned from Kaipara, where he gave an account of his London mission. They approved of the English “ Maori land scheme,” and expressed a hope that all tribes would fall in with it. Taiwhanga leaves for North on Monday to address a Native meeting convened at Waitania on the Bth. NELSON, This Day. Three men, named E. Fothergill, Dunk and Reid, when crossing the bar near the Boulder Bank, in a boat capsized, but were rescued in an exhausted state by Capt, Robins, of the cutter Mersey. |

At the inquest on thq fatal fire, the evidence shewed the womai) to hays been drunk ; she said she was going on tlic hills. Wm, Norton, the husband, deposed that between naps ho heard what lie believed was the woman going up-stairs into tlie loft. Deceased was in the habit of smoking, and when drunk was continually lighting her pipe. On the constable reaching the scene of the fire, he asked Norton whereabouts his wife and he said she was on the hills ; but subsequently said he remembered her to go up the stairs. The constable said, *, Then she is burned,” and in reply, Norton said “and a good job too. 4 Norton, however, denies this. The jury brought in the following verdict, “The jury is of opinion that the deceased, Margaret Norton, died from the effects of burning while In u drunken state, and thj.t the jury strongly censure her husband, Wm. Norton, for liot having made known the fact that he had heard her go up-stf ira, and fur not having made any effort to save her, ” The Coroner called the num before him and gave him a lecture.

WELLINGTON, This Day. . Thompson and Morgan were brought up again to-day, charged with having 40 gallons of whiskey in their possession upon which duty had not been paid. A further remand was grailted to enable an important witness tube present; bail being allowed each prisoner, himself in £2OO, ahd two sureties of £lOO each, George Taylor, a prominent resident in the Porirua district, was charged with having in his possession certain instruments for illicit distillation was also remanded on the same bail.

} OAMARU, This Day. ( ricket -Auckland v. Oamaru. The team , arrived here shortly after noon yesterday, 1 and the match commenced at two o’clock. Buckland took Dufaur’s place in the eleven. The wicket was not at all a good one. I Robinson won the toss, and put Oamaru in. I Kneen and Sumpter went first to the wickets, Buckland and Amcil bowling. Maidens , from each end were followed by Kneen cut- ; ting Buckland for 2, and Sumpter smicked a i couple from Amcil. Buckland’s next over ■ produced three singles, and after two more maidens, Sumpter drove Arneil for three. ‘ Kneen opened out at both bowkrs l and 20 I soon appeared with no wickets down. i At the cricket match, Auckland v. Oamaru, I commenced yesterday, Oamaru in their first ■ innings scored 88. Snow being the highest i scorer with 33 not out. Auckland 140 for 6 ! wickets. Barton 65, Blair 33, and Arneil j 20, were the highest scores.