TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 4 August 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

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ACCIDENT AT NELSON.'"

■" A yoiiiif! la 3 mmi Ery was tiding on a loud of firewood at liiwaka yesterday, when ho Ml t ftiid, the dray pping jiver 'liis 'injufi'eaTnrhiofil "proTecl" 'A-Uv . j

EXECUTION, iP: , HEPKOTE&TS. "IS INNOCENCE* TO U; I 'THtl liiST, ■I . '■!•!/

J;i;AVOKfcAHD, this day, WifllaU stepped out ofhis'cell and wHinj' firmlyitawardß' the scaffold, nop-.-,-tlrag tpjhe;sherjif,ai}4 ißiieptMors'. ? Be»: WalliH, vrho.had'beori: wi th liim since his trial, thtysoaffold syith tluj'muV-" Jeter, -anil yopeated prayers for the dying. Winiaia aaid, V Friends and Europeans, J : am going : to,giYe my'bpdy to be' killed/ "listen to ine'all of' you,' My hands did jEurppeein. ?. ,Thia is • the end pi-iny body, I have now.a word to aay to .Giid 1 ." I'iiaisintt''hiß B«ayen'hfl i continued "lam delivering my aoul into' thy tends, taiheiiiber ! jh'e' 'wiien I come into thy Kii'iK'dum ; this iis''all T ; h:ive tp Bay." The tap was then atijiisiedjon •head,.and on a. Bignal..,frqm,,the [sheriff, iho ( dr^w,\ jthe.Jbo'lt : fcoin the soaffolcV so 'c-.iiistriioi'ed that immediately the'dtoj was 'drawn' ille. criminal} disappeared out of sight of the spectators,iblL .Be scaffoldbeing Soarded'u'p,] his neck 'was'found tohave beei!'broken, his head 1 hanging .liacky/ard^ : Doctyra there iere. ,B'igns '6i;Jife rot "ei'ght'minutes. Aftei 1 hingiiii for half-iiti hour, the body was taken' 'diiwii and placed in a coffin at the foot of the scaffold formal ini iqubst wiib lifeld. : the 'body. - The"odrmier"arifloired'". ■ ft- 'to be biiVied''withiii' 1 tliii' j)r.!pinciß of the gao(.'. ' 'TH ! exeV:'ulioner \vitß a 'convict, .about 24 yeui'B of age, short si ature, Btuut| build, ,;b§ to.lia.ve p^ecuted.Hiroki,Walsh, in.W polony, andithree murderers in N. S. Wales, ;

,'•! i'ui' vl. A! OjtMidday,lftsti tlie'sdhiHinor Elizaboth| Carle, 79 tons, bound from Lyttelto» to Auckland,/went aahoreoii'Ourrier Island, nerr the Great Barrier, and became a TOck ; ';nci "Ihit .wheii i>fl[ Island, tjio wind. died away riiirt' Ihe vessel drifted toward the slum .i 45 fathiima 'Of cable were 'run out, but did qui hold, and she went Aon tltoT«,>ck-j ■ ; , y, ; I 1 7l The,,'crew landed on, and HiibaoqueiVtly ca.lllo t<> Auckland. ; The yenaol belonged to E. Jenlrina,, uf;L|yttel„tqn, £7siinrfi'oi«l)t, i Th»: vesafll ' was''insured as follows: —South British!'£2so; New Zea!an<t, s MIS ', -.National,'^2so; Union, £IOO. • • ' ' - ' , ;