LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 937, 29 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Unoit unit own correspondent. WELLINGTON RACES. Wellington. All the seven horses nominated tor the Spring Handicap at the races to-morrow have paid their final sovereigns, so that a good field ib, expected. There is not, however, likely to be a large attendance, as the mayoral election on. the same day attracts more interest here.' ■ ■' ; ' ' DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. Thompson, Shannon & Go have received news of tho death of Edward Masters'at Melbourne. He wbb formerly member for Oreymouth, TRIAL OF HIROKI. PRISONER COMMITrED, . New Plymouth, Nov. 29, Hiroki, on the charge of murdering McLean, was formally committed for trial yesterday, Another charge will now be hoard against him of breaking info the housß of William Taylor and stealing a gun, watch, &c, FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT! New Plymouth, November 28. Yesterday morning a fatal boat accident occurred on the Waitara river, resulting in the death of William Ody and his wife. They with thoir little child about seven months old, were in a sailing boat on the river, the wife steering, when the boat "jibbed," and tho mainsail hooked her overboard. Mr Ody jumped into the river after his wife, who clung to him, and after a struggle, they were drowned. The man's body was recovered three hours afterwards, but up to a late hour last night the woman had not been discovered. The child was in the boat, and was recovered alive. The body of Mrs Ody was picked up this morning on the Waitara Rivor bank, a little below the old cattle wharf. The husband was from Greymnuth, and had for some time been trading to the West Coast from Lyttelton. The child- has been adopted by a settler at vVaitara. •'

ARRESTED FOR FORGERT. DCNEDIN. Mcintosh, manager of the Walton Park Colliery Company, was arrested for forgery. His defalcation amount to fifteen hundred pounds, • - - SUSPECTED SUICIDE,. Ohristchcrch. A man named Cockbum, formerly male on board the " Portland." and on the "Examiner," was found dead on th». sandhills at Kaiapoi yesterday. At the inquest a verdict was returned of died from a gunshot wound, but by whom inflicted there was no evidence to show. The. medical evidence showed that it was possible for the wound to be self-inflicted, but waa not a natural wound for a suicide, nor could the weapon have been thrown away afterwards, Curiously enough, the weapon cannot be found. The Coroner said he ooncurred with the verdiot,'for, | though there was no evidence, there

could be little doubt it was OockburnV own deed. v. " One hundred and seventy-one cases of .infectious diseases were reported {during the September quarter to.the Board of Health. A dead body, believed to be that of a man named William Thomas, was found floating'in the Avon this morning; John Steele, an elderly patient at the ■hospital, was found drowned in one of the bathrooms yesterday, It is not known whether he committed suicide or fell into the bath while in a fit, An open verdict has been returned.