LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 630, 27 November 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

HORRIBLE MURDER AT • OPUNAKE,

[FROM OUR' OWN CORRESPONDENT]

WELLINGTON. TlipDay. • The following '■ telegram was Bent from Opunake yesterday from, Colonel Roberts te the , Under-Secretary of Defence, Colonel' Reader Miss Dobie went out for. a; walk yesterday. afternoon, and was found : murdered about 6.30 p.m., about a mile-and-a-half North of Opunake, on the main line of road. ' - A man named- Walter- Stodar, from Hawera, has been arrested.' "8100d 1 was found on his 'liat, "'clothes, 1 and one of his boots, which he explains was caused by a cut from hit horses' nose. A piece of bridle was found near the place this morning, and »

pair of ragged trousers'- covered with blood kbout- six- feet.;, from where the body was found,—(Signed) J. Mr Roberts, ■

, Another: telegram to Colonel Reader statei that the clothes had been torn, from the body and the the'head , cut off.,, Evidently a .foul and- atrocious outrage has been committed, The unfortunately lady was the sister-in-law of Major Goring and was on a visit to him.' She was one of the artists of the London Graphic, and

was out sketching at the time she met with such an awful end.

The inquest, was commenced to-day, and adjourned, Medical testimony shows that she was .not outraged. It is the general opinion here that the Maoris are the perpetrators, The affair has .caused tremendous excitement.

■W. Seed is appointed secretary to the Marine Department. The Governor arrives on Monday, and lands publicly the same afternoon.

A French steamer was sunk in the ' 1 . • 1 Channel through a collision, and 200 lives lost;