LATEST TELEGBAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 850, 19 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGBAMS.

(FROM OTTR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ' " YANKEE "NOTIONS. Ohrisiohuroh, August ißth. , The '('Liberty" office has:again been; attacked. Three men f rom ; 'Kangiora, named Hossack, Bla'ckett, and Sanson, went for the editor, but failing to find hiro, smashed a quantity of matter ready for publication, and, nipped one .of, the; compositors over the head with a heavy' brass galley. GREAT TANGI. .'.. :■"', New Plymouth/ . A great tangi was held over Nuku, brother of Titokowaru; '.."■" '' ; :,i : 3,000 natives attended the Parihaka meeting.- ;-'■ .: : ;.,■';' DIFFERENCE OP OPINION. A [special train, laden with passengers to swamp the Harbor Board meeting at Normanby, was despatched yesterday. • SHAMEFOL CASE. Oamaru. A Swede named' Augustus Hass;'illtreated his wife in a most shameful manner for several days following her giving birth to a female child. He refused her medical attendance, and threatened her liie, It is supposed he was angry because of the sex of the child, &i he wished for a son. She was at lastremoved to the hospital, and has since died, LATE FEARFUL SUICIDE. Auckland. Arthur Craig, who tied himself to a sofa by his hands and feet, and then set fire to a quantity of tow, and so burnt himself to death, was a widower, with' several young children to maintain.' FALSE CHARGE DISPROVED. A charge of seduction preferred by a young girl against a Presbyterian student named Dunn has been entirely disproved, and ho will seek a legal remedy.