LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 951, 16 December 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION.)

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT. Blenheim, Dec. 16,

A man named Henry Boyce was killed in the Wairau Valley yesterday by the upsetting of a wool dray which he was driving, In coming from a siding the dray capsized, throwing several bales on the top of him. Death was instantaneous. Be leaves a wife and four children.

GALE BLOWING. Wellington, this day. Blowing Btrong N.W. gale., No damage is reported. THE HON, 0. J. PHARAZYN.

The Returning Officer for Thomdon to day laid ;in against the Hon, C. J. Phi inizyu for plural voting at (lie recent election. An information has also lieon laid ag.iiuat two electors in South Wellington on similar charges, The eases will be heard next Thursday.

ENGLISH MAIL.

The Haiven with the English mail will arrive about three o'clock thia afternoon.

Pungarehu, December 15.

Rahotu is now entirely deserted. -The few men that were stationed there arrived here last nifjht. The Natives took possession of the " best stockade on the Cuast," saying that they intended to live there in future, The and the theatrical properties have been all shifted here, and the theatre itself may possibly soon follow. Recruits aro being drilled regularly the same as usual. The Fort Rolleston guard lias been done, away with. The telegraph (oflice in: one of the bastions of Fort Parihaka is nearly finished, and telegraph poles are rapidly being erected. Stairs are also being made from the lower camp (1 and 6 companies) to Fort Pavihaka; a fine mess whare, 140 ft long, is being erected on the side of the bill for Nos. 3 and 4 companies, and the camp is assuming a shipshape form. Some men are told off every day for road work, and others for the Camp fatigues. Major Goring is having a houso built here, and it is expected to be ultimately his particular station. There is a whisper abroad that Major Tuke and No. 4 Company will be sent to the East Coast.