LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 752, 26 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

WELLINGTON.: ':.' This day;; ' The barque Himalaya, 109 days' from London, arrived yesterday. She.only brings ten passengers. -

A fatal accident occurred at Kaiwarra last evening. An old Tawa Flat settler named William Peckhara was driving home in his wood-cart at night and missed the proper track in the dark, near where a, new bridge is being built, and drove over the river bank into the stream, falling under the cart in the bed of the river, where he was drowned. Great blame is thrown on contractors for not keeping lights burning at the works. DUNEDIK The gradient on the Roalyn tramway, where the accident on Saturday occurred, is one in fy feet. The sufferers are progressing favorably. A man named Cheshire, hospital wardsman at Queeustown, in a fit of jealous rage, took prusaic acid and died. The Chamber of Commerce propose that the Government should discontinue its present subsidy to the San Francisco mail steamer, and give a grant to a direct line to England. AUCKLAND. Rees, solicitor, has laid another libel information against Wickham of Free Lance notoriety. A miner named Burke, at Coromandel, blew his own head off witli a rifle. GRAHAMSTOWN. Some boys were out shooting and one named Ritchie got in the line of fire from another's gun, and had his brains blown out. A boat containing four men capsized in a squall, and Drummond and O'Sullivan were drowned, The latter was only recently married, and the scene when his young wife was informed of the catastrophe was extremely painful. ADELAIDE. In the six day's pedestrian tournament, Edwards walked 451 miles, and Swan, of New Zealand, 423, both doing it easily. SYDNEY, The Newcastle miners are considering with a view to adverse action to the employment of Chinese in coal mines. LONDON,

A French force has crossed the frontier from Algiers to Tunis without opposition,

Rival Boer factions m the Transvaal cause much anxiety.