LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 794, 15 June 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

FItOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

Wellington, 1 June 15;'.

A -HARD CASE!

Hewitt, station master here,- has-re* signed, after five years' service, the .department requiring a man who can work the telegraph. ~ . (

CHINESE IMMIGRATION.';■ <

The Bill introduced in the House provides for levying a poll tax of £lO on every Chinaman coining' into the colony after the Chinese population hei-e and to. arrive amount to 5000; also heavy fines and forfeitures of any vessel attempting evasion."'''.". : '"'' '' ■"'' RECOVERY . OF. STOLEN .GOODS. Donedin,' Jhiie 15. The police have recovered £IOO worth, of the jewellery recently stolen; -from' Hooper's shop at Christohurch. ■■ They found it buried in the sandhills at Ocean' Beach. ... ; :.■ EXHIBITION. The Industrial Exhibition opened yesterday, and attracted a large attendance. Ministers will not come down, but part of the members are. oxpected by the Hinemoa to Lyttelton, and ' thence" by railway shortly. ' ' , ■,, ' GOLD f'GOLD I GitEYMoura, 15th. Four men at the Seventeen-Mile Beach got seventeen and a half pounds of gold in a week—nearly £BOO worth. , EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

At Timaru one Pindel, an insane prisoner attempted suicide by opening a vein in his arm. He had secreted a little tin gem photograph, and used this to cut his wrist and gash his throat.