LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 841, 3 December 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

■ FJTEI) KRESS ASHOCpfOK. WEI-IfNOTON, this fj^r, ARRIVAL. Lady Agnes, barque, from New Yor|i is at the Heads, Auckland. Owing to a rumor that the children in the city public schools were to be compulsotily vaccinated, the attendance has sensibly diminished. The School Committee has stated that it Would not permit compulsory vaccination,

Shea lias been drowned at Newbury At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was retin'flgi). The Rev, S. W, Dunn, who waß recently tried by the Presbytery at the instigation of a young woman and honorably acquitted was ordained by the Presbytery to PukeIfoiie, Reefton, Dec. 3. The remains of nhpther Hy, that of Richard Lecher, have just been found in the ruins of Dawson's.Hotel, An inquest will be held on the flro on Monday,, The origin of tho fire is still a mystery.' Donedin, Dec, 2. E. De La Perille committed suicide at Arrowtown last evening. His body was found in a farm building under some bags, siiocjjdjjgly bijrnt, he having set (ire to the place.

It is not intended by tlje police to take further proceedings against tho parties getting up sweeps on the racecourse whose names had been taken down. This step TO dppidgd oj} 113 they djd ijot persist after being warned. Tuuitu, Dec, 1, Some splendid trout are being psught in thp lopal streams. To-day, two averaging lfllba were on view, Cdeistouiiroh, Dec, 2,

Bridget Payne has been committed for trial for setting fire to a house in Barba-does-street, A neighbor gave evidence that Payne had adown" on her, and on Wednesday her house was set on fire her absence. Koroseno and matches were found about it but the damage done was not great.