TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1257, 18 December 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

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KNOCKING IT DOWN,

Auckland, thiß day. The man Hardy, who died from excessive drinking last week, was a short time previously left £2OOO. The ourator of intestate estates is now only able to find not more than £l5O.

Napier, December 17. It is reported here that the Hon J, Bryce has arranged the long-standing Murimolu dispute, so far as-regards the release of Moorhouse and Studholme and Morrins' wool, worth over £21,000, which has for three years past been impounded by the natives; but that he could not arrange for a lease of the block, the Palea natives objecting. Milner Stephen gave a public exhibition of his professed healing powers in the Theatre Royal yesterday, and created great astonishment by apparently instantaneously curing partial paralysis, rheumatism, and like affeotions. The patients certainly walked away professing to be cured. In one case a deaf fond' dumb boy was mftde to hear, and he repeated words after Mr Stephen. It is reported that lie. has sinee fallen from grace;' and cannot now speak. The so-called cures are brought about by breathings and blowing and stroking with the hand, assisted by red flannel, on whichMr Stephen breathes, and bottles of what he calls magnetised water and magnetised oil. His performance was the talk of the'town last night.

A WILD MAN OF THE WOODS,

Dunedin, December 17, . A rather strange affair is reported from TuapekaWest, Mr Jno. Bulfin has, reported to the polioo that a man had been seen last week in the bush behind his aa-oommodation-house, by informant, his sou and hu ploughman, with a large pole or stick in his hands. The roan came out of the bush,-and was seen to stick the pole in the ground, go sonicj distance from' it"; throw stones at it, and return and take it up, shake it round his head, and thes bestride it as if on horseback, Those who witnessed the strange occurrence made a run to try and capture him, but he made his escape in the bush. As the parties were not close to him, no description of his person oan be given. On Monday last Sergeant-Major Moore and Mounted Constable Olark, proceeded to the locality and, accompanied by Mr Bulfin, made a careful search of the bush, but could find no trace of the man. No one is known to have oalled al any place in the neighborhood askingfor food, and the probability is that the individual, whether semi or wholly insane, haa removed to some other looality.

This day, News has been received here that the Kiandra, from London to Port Chalmers, has met with an aocident in the English Channel. \

PROFITABLE FISHING.

Ohristohuroh, this day. Mr Wm. Elder, of Port Chalmers, manager of the Company which fitted out the. whaling barque Splendid, now lying at Lyttelton, visited that vessel on Friday, when he.reoeivedfsom Captain Earle 8841bs of-'ambergrais,'extracted ;from one whale.. Mr Elder estimates the value of the ambergrais at 145,000, is "stated' that that commodity sells" at" £4'loa an i ounse. i