LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1276, 16 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

tm VNXTID FMU AMCVNATION]. KU MAK,'A, Thie Day. The Kumara “ Timos ” u* derstands, that at the adjourned inqn net at Lyell, on Monday next, as to the eanse of the death of the man Quinlfin, John Vavidss.n, who is committed for trial for attempted suicide, will be charged with the wilful' murder of Denis Qululan. OAM/IRU, This day. A woman named Susan Madden, whose husband was buried yestiirday, attempted suicide to-day by cutting bi tr throat. DUNED IN, Thie Day. The death is reported froi n the country of a farmer, from drinking larva quantities of water in a harvest field, pro nucing acute inflammation ot the bowels. NAPI ER, This day. Complaints are made that while Waipawa gets half the amount appliwl for under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, Hawke's Bay does not ,;et a third. The Hospital funds are totally exhausted, and not a penny has be en received from the Government this year Captain Preece go<>s to Awanui, near Tologa Bay, to enquire into the reported murder there. It seems a Chief named Hamana Nahoki took the wife of a Native named Naera, and gave her to another Native, named HopwEu Whearu. Neara, with a.double-barrelled gun, shot at both Hamana and Hopuku, the former being killed.