TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1235, 21 November 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

| UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION | DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST. _ Pauik :ston North, this day. Mr WilliamDalrymple, formerly member of the Otago Provincial Council died at Awahuri on Saturday, aged 83. GSOHNELL'S SENTENCE COMMUTED. Wellington, this day. At a meeting ot the Executive Council this morning the'case of Aritonio Gschnell recently found guilty and sentenced to .death for murder near Normanby (Taranaki), was considered, and it was decided to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life. SUPPOSED SUICIDE BY AN IN-' : SURANOE AGENT. Dunbdin, November 20, James RenwioSr, insurance ageut at Palmers ton South, was drowned yesterday. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. Ho leaves a wife and family in distressed circumstances. J SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN. . Timaru, November 20, A man named John Green was'sentenced to twelve months''hard labor for brutally assaulting a policemau with a bottle and biting one of his fingers off. The policeman's head was terribly cut and bruised. .

SEVERE ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES. Dunedjn, November 20. Owing to electrical disturbances sinco Saturday night the work of the Telegraph Office in Dunedin has been greatly delayed. Thorewasa constant, current of eleotricity flowing outho lines, equivalent to ten-times the strength of the batteries generally usod. Somo of the batteries had to bo disconnected altogether, and messages were sent without the use of the battery at all, ut feat never before done in the annals of tho New Zealand tolegraph. Yesterday afternoon tho business was almost at a standstill, THE VACANT SEAT. ■ Donedin, this day. The following names are mentioned as candidates iur the PeninsulaLarnach, Cutten, E. B. Cargill, A. J. Burns, Donelly, andG. Mcßride (Mayor of South Dunedin). THE RABBIT ACT. Eight farmers in the Taiori district have been fined for not taking- sufficient steps for tho extermination of rabbiis. EARTHQUAKE. . Kaikoura, this day. A smart shook of earthquake was perienced here yesterday evening at nine', o clock, and continued several seconds,' fit first slight and direction undecided, but as it increased in violenoe it was "dia-tiuetly-east and west. Liter a brilliant * aurora was observed.