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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 19 June 1882, Page 2

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- DSITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION. * ... COMET. ... Obbbjohoikw. ' . A comehyaa visible Iwt night, :. '■ , ; STATUE • TO- • The Italians in fought under Garibaldi purpose taking measures fpr the erection of a statue to his memory.' 4 '[ WELLINGTON CENTRAL' PRISON. ' ; SEAMAN DROWNED. ' • TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. [. . .v, : this day.' • Therewas'a terrible tragedy in Chapelst, tbis.morhid'g.t A tnill hand : named Benry.Foreman, 22» whkhas been married'' seven weeks). 'took' down his carbine'and threatened to shoot his wife, she ran out of the:kouße'but'^liad.:not gone many yards before; she heard a, shot, and Foreman waßfound dead;:with a. large hole over the region of tbe :heart. , Jealousy is assigned as tha csinfce. -Mrs Foreman was. enoiente.- •' ■ was a membor of the .Naval Brigade and arrived per Taiaroa from Fiji.iVNo news of importance,: 0 n > S;'• Five long : sentenced ■ prisoners have ' been sent to~ Wellington ;per : Oreti -to assist in the construction; of the. new gaol there.. Amongst: them ;are the' notorious Fred Plummer, ten; years l for7 burglary and sending threatening; letters)'/and : W. T. Bolton, ten years for forgery and horai Stealing,' ;:v-. v ; : . The captain' of the - Mendozo> reports that a seaman named John Taraghan fel overboard and : was . drowned 'during the voyage. • '■ : THE NAPIER; ~ day, •' The Supreme Court; opened by Judge Gillies, The calendar' includes ;ten persons charged with' fifteen, offences, con- ' silting of one rape ■ (nalive • afiair), one manslaughter, • one (malicious'' wounding, five horsestealing," one larceny- as ■ baillie, and six forgery. With the exception of ' the case of manslaughter, none- of the offences are of ah aggravated oharaoter, Most of them are from Poverty; Bay,.

TROUBLE.AMONG SAILORS.

Wvnoandi, June 19.

Two seamen named Boyd and Bedmond assaulted Captain Pope on board the steamer Tui in the Wangatitii Eiv'er. on Saturday jiight, and tried to throw him They were brought lip at the R.M. Court this moruing and remanded. • The assessors gave judgment in the case of collision between, the. schooner. E.N. Camerou, of Lyltelton, and. 'ihe steamer Clyde, trading to Patea, bUmjjng both, captains, and censuring Captafn Bonnor, of' the steamer, Their'certificate's are to be returned,and costs;.paid euually'by each captain. : , "FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. MISHAP WITH A FIRE ESOAS, Dunmdin, June; 18: A'Fortiose telegram brings Wordfthat a young genileman named Slater, from Home, who was on a visit to Sl/E. S. Vernon, of Tois-Tois Station, has been discovered lying dead beside a creek in the bush. He had been out shooting, and his gun had evidently discharged itself, as the top of the young man's head was blown clean off. His body had eudently lain all night.

Bather a serious accident occurred in „ Gepige-slraet last night. While a fire escape was being tried two'firemen were coining down from the top story of- a drapery warehouse, when the rojie broke and the two fell through the verandah on to tho pavement. Two boys, nanied ' Finlayson, were struck by tho men : as they landod, and were stunned. One re-' mained unconscious all night, but neither are severely injured, The firemen escaped with a few bruiseß.

. ANOTHER PIKE. • . AN ARREST. Dunkmn, this day, A seVen-roomed house at Tomahawk, occupied by Mr Crombie, was burned to the ground The building was insured in the New Zealand, and tho furniture in the National for &00.

On the arrival os the cutter Jane, the police arrested Charles Everett and Daniel Mpore on suspicion of being concerned in the hotel robbery at Invercargill, £'3l was found on them. • .

' THE MANAPOURI, Wellington, this day. Large' orowds visited the Mannpouri laßt evening to witness .thel display of electric light, ■ LOSS OF JESSIE LODEN, ' Gisb'orne, thiß dsy. : A native policem'Bni: arrived/ last night from East Cape reporting total loss of tho ketch Jessie" lo'den- for thißV port with timber, all hands lost. The vessel is insured for^QO, 1 ' timber remained in the hold of vessel, whioh waß driven ashore ft few milea north of Ea'at Caps. a f -: f; -' - TraAStr,' June 18. Detective Kirby left yesterday for San Francisco, via Auckland; in' j quest oi tne. levanting debtor, ShepherijL r , ~ There'has beeii ari" unexceptional num-' I ber of meteors visible durint! the last two nights,' nnd a °alight diaplay of Aurora Außtralis. r - s:i -, ( - THE WOODSTOCK BUSH, Hokitika, June 18. Oumiok and party, at' the, Woodstock rush, WMhed up on. Saturday, aud obtained 220z0f goldaa loads of waahdirt. A number claims will wash' up .- immediately, .they having been waiting for water, .The rush is exleiiding. dailjy and ' there are about 1200 men on the field,