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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 761, 6 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ©— W B L L I M -G-T 0 N . .''.' This day. '• The gazettee contains an offer of a bonus of £SOO for the first twenty;five tons of butter or fifty tons.of cheese produced in a factory worked on the American .principle, also £IOO for the first hundred tonß of refrigerated fresh meat sent to Europe from this Colony. DUNEDIN. -■ The Tararua enquiry was adjourned to obtain the statutory declaration of the officers sated, NEW PLYMOUTH. A man named Pepperell, sometime invalid, was found dead in a horse trough only containing 8 inches of water, OHRISTCHURCH. Nine ships, with a carrying capacity of 12,600 tons are now loading for home at Lyttellon. The Minister of Public Works arrived here yesterday. - Charles Geddeshas been arrested for embezzling the funds of the Loyal Sefton Lodge of Oddfellows. AUCKLAND. The barque Fern reports a vessel ashore at ; the Little Barrier Island apparently abandoned, supposed to be the Policeman schooner, from Norfolk Island:

The census returns show an increaseof 12,339 in the city.and sububs population since 1878. LONDON. The Irish members in the House of Commons intind proposing a vote of censure on Gladstone'in connection with • the arrest of Dillon. ■ Three Greek' army corps are preparing to occupy territory in Thesaaly and Epirua ceded by Turkey to Greece, Newmarket Two Thousand Guineas Stakes was won by Peregrine, with Iroquois second, Eight officers and 135 men were killed by the explosion aboard the Dotterel. Nothing yet known of the cause.

ADELAIDE. The cup yesterday was won by Totalisator.