TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4239, 2 August 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FBOH OUB OWN COBBEBPONDENT )

AUCKLAND.

This day.

Preparations for Winiata's execution are proceeding, and a hangman engaged, who is said to be a young man no* aerring a sentence for forgery, and it is stated he also executed Hiroki. The trap, the rope, and the pinions will be on a new model, The trap will consist of a double

flap, secured and unfastened by a patent bolt. Instead of the knot being tied as it has before been, the rope will run through an eyelet hole lined with hard polished material to facilitate rapid adjustment. Instead of the pinions, there will be employed a simple but secure kind of strapping or " harness " for the purpose of preventing; any motion of arms or legs from the moment it is fastened on the wearer. Besides the offioials, only ten persons will bo admitted to the execution.

The Piako County Council is urging on the Government the desirability and necessity of pushing forward the construction of the railway from Morrinsville to Te Aroba on the grounds £hat while the flat character of tHe country passed is favorable for railway; formation, it renders the work of keeping the roads in a fit state for heavy traffic beyond the means of the settlers.

Mr Wat kin has been appointed French master at the Auckland College; salary, £250. .

The Auckland Presbytery have decided to abolish the pastoral now existing between the Revd. Breach and his New Plymouth congregation.

[Pee Pbess Association.]