LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 169, 26 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(per puess agency. WELLINGTON. Friday, A hoy named Hylaiul, aged twelve years, the son of a widow woman, nearly blew his hand off by the bursting of a flask of powder lie was carrying in his hand while shooting near Karori. His face is much injured with powder.

All the solicitors close thc-ii' ofiices on Monday instead of to-morrow..

New insolvents:—A. Warsaw, tobacconist) and J. 0. Hay ward, settler.

In Chambers this morning, Gordon ./lllan. oil behalf of Gleich, the bankrupt defaulter, applied for a rule nisi calling upon the gaoler to show cause why the writ of habeas corpus should not issue. Application granted and writ made, returnable on' Wednesday.

Monday next will bo declared a municipal holiday. It is understood that Sir Hercules Bobin-. son, accompanied by Lady Kobinson, will make a flying visit to Auckland about the end of June Their stay will be a little over a week,

The report on alleged 801 l stuffing lias been received, and according to it there is no doubt that Ml stuffing had taken place, but that all parties appear to have been equally culpable. It considers the removal'of the Revising Officer not without justification, but was inopportune, and the action of his snccessor open to censure. Sunday, A sharp shock of earthquake was felt this morning about a quarter past noon, The direction was from cast to west, 'ihe vibration only lasted a few seconds, FEILDING. i Sunday. The saw-millers here have given notice to reduce all classes of labor at the mills twenty percent. This is supposed to bo owing lo an alteration in the tariff taking 2s per 100 off imported timber, CAMBRIDGE. Friday, The following notice in Maori and English is posted here at the Land Court' 1 In consequence of the serious affection of the throat from which the Native Minister is suffering, it is absolutely necessary that he should refrain from business till Monday next.— Signed, S. Waddi.vctos;" fiLSBORNE. Friday. Bobert Cooper, Native land speculator, and John Brodie were arrested and lodged in the lock-up for a breach of the Arms Act in supplying a native with a double-barrel gun and ammunition, Cooper and Brodie were bailed out on sureties of £BOO each.