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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 604, 26 October 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

' (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) 'WELLINGTON.... ■ '' Monday. Walkley) a publican, was -charged today with' keeping his house open after hours, and pleaded guilty, The case was dismissed, as. the Act provided merely against selling liquors after hours, no sale being proved. At the inqueat to-day on the lad Heighton, who.was killed by falling from a horse/a verdiot.of accidental.death was returned. •' ' ■ • 1 A Chinaman at Butcher's Gully, Otago, is saii to have 'found a niigeet weighing four pounds, ' ; '.l. A new Democratic paper is announced'' at Auckland. .! "Sir Geoi'ge Grey writes that he is too: ill to leave Kawau,at > present,, but Visits soon, ;. Good new mining ground hai been d>i<

covered at the Thames. Mokena, .a native owner, allows mining, on the condition that he gota a share of the profits. Glasson, a hairdresser at Timarii, committed suioide by swallowing carbolic acid.-' ' v- ... tYv/ An . inquest was held at Fielding, on the body ot Henry Weatherly, who was found drowned at Taonui with his hands tied. The evidence showecl. that he was insane, and that he himself had tied his hands.

Mata is still rising in the betting market for the Melbourne Cup, and is now backed at 8 to 1.

Trickett' and Laycock have returned from the Isle of Wight. Turkey refusing to agree to the details of the cession of Dulcigno, the conference of powers has broken up. - The Basutos at the Cape still continue offensive, and a large force now threatens the rear of Colonel Clarke's position at Mafeting,