TOWN NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 33, 19 August 1867, Page 3

TOWN NEWS OF THE WEEK.

(From our own Correspondent.) Tuesday morning, 6 a.m. Mrs Lockyer was released from gaol on Monday last, bail being accepted for her appearance at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, herself in £IOO and two sureties of the same amount each. The heavy gale experienced in Wellington swept over the Middle Island and extended itself to Auckland where it did great damage to the shipping in harbor. The local press has been unduly seveae on the conduct of a few men belonging to the Charybdis, who chanced to make a disturbance on the Queen’s Wharf the other day. The severer the discipline on board, the more likelihood of such disturbances on shore, though the “Advertiser” does not appear to think so. You will be glad to learn that the Committee of the Benevolent Society have taken a houseat Thorndon as a temporary home for destitute persons. The Government ought to aid the Committee in their laudable undertaking Thursday Morning, 6 a.m.

There is very little news of general interest to report this week, excepting political, which is the province of your special correspondent just now, and not mine to write about. A coal field is reported to have been discovered in Preservation Inlet, (at the SouthWestern extremity of Otago Province.

The Postal communication with England question has entered a new phase in consequence of a misunderstanding between the Governments of Sydney and Melbourne as to which of those ports is to be the terminus of the Suez route.

Sudden death by suffocation in consequence of a piece of meat lodging in his throat, resulting at Wanganui last week to a tailor named Farley. An evil spirit must have been in possession of a man at Patea last in the agonies of death from “ delirium tremens ” he cried out for more drink.

Eight lives were lost by drowning during the gale at Sydney on the 29th ultimo, Two of those drowned were Pilots Robertson and Read.

The Otago Gold Escorts show an increase of the production of gold in that Province of 1000 ounces in the fortnight, this increase is attributed by Otago gentlemen in town to the excessive dry weather in the southern portion of the Middle Island having enabled miners to work the beds of streams that was inaccessible to them for years past. .

The statement you published from the “ Independent ” relative to the confession of Walter Tricker has since been emphatically contradicted by the Rev. A. Stock who says that Tricker was no more guilty of the murder of Rayner than he (Mr. Stock) was. He says his impression is that the murder was com- | mitted for the sake of getting the £220 which was supposed to be in Sir. Rayner’s possession at the time the deed was perpetrated. Mr. Sealer has obtained the contract for the Queen’s I Vharf extension which he engages to execute for £BB9 16s.

A meeting has been held of the Wellington Fire Brigade when it was resolved that the Brigade should be limited to 100 men and be divided into four companies 0f25 men each. A small schooner from Manakau, loaded with timber and potatoes was driven on shore last week near Manawatu, and shortly after broke up. Business of all kinds continues dull, and a number of working men about town remain unemployed.