TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1355, 17 April 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION] TREMENDOUS LANDSLIP. Auckland) Tuesday. At midnight a tremendous landslip occurred at the cliff at Point Britoraavt near the centre of the city. The cliff is about 80 feet high and against it Mr John Lamb for the past three years has been erecting a retaining wall and flour mill. About 150 feet in length by 50 feet in hoight gave way, ■ and about 2000 tons of debris came down, destroying a portion of tho mill, and covering the roadway. A cabman passing at the time had a very narrow escape. Timaku, April 16. Major Atkinson addressed a crowded meeting this . evening in the new Theatre Eoyal,. He spoke for an hour and a half on pauperism, and at the conclusion received a hearty vote of thanks. Oa'maru, April 16, Major Atkinson, aftei'a visit to several of the several, of the public institutions of the town, ' left for Timaru to-day. 1 • Ernest Arntney, a Frenchman, who was found parading the streets with an axe last night, was arrested and lodged in the lock-up. He turnedout to be a lunatic recently escaped from the Dunedin Asylum. THE TASMANIA TRAGEDY. Dunedin, this day, The following are additional items re Tasmauian tragedyOgden and Davis after leaving Wilson, attacked a line repairer and scalped him, and also murdered Alfred Holman, the driver of Page's mail coach, whom they shot without warning. They were captured by Constable Phillips and two settlers. When taken they, boasted they could have shot the Constable and Inspector Palmer, whom they covered with their guns in the dark They'were quite unconcerned and sang Kelly's songs on the way to tho lock-up. Later. : The particulars of the Epping tragedy, states that Wilson, a repairer on the railway, lived half way. between Epping aid Cleveland, He had gone to bed at the usual hour on the night of the ninth, and was aroused by stones being thrown on his house. He got up to find out the cause, when he was shot by Ogden, who is 20 years of age. Wilson died shortly afterwards. The murderers then fired through the windows of the'house, wounding Mrs Bowram, who was living in the house, They then appeared to have demanded money, and Mrs Wilson ..gave them What; little she had, amounting! to: thirteen shillings. A daughter of Mrs Wilson's, aged "about 11 years, said she knew Ogden, and hearing this the murderers took the girl 'some distance: with them along the main road, but after threatening to shoot Mrs' Wilson; who followed them, released the girl. Before leaving they set fire to & house, which was quickly burnt to the ground. The act is attributed not to the objepfc of robbery,, but rather to an insane desire :> for Kelly notoriety.; i Ogden comes from a bad lot, and was an inmate of the Hobart Reformatory, and is suspected of perpetrating the recent'cases'.'of sticking up. ■