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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1374, 9 May 1883, Page 2

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[UNITED P«EBS AB3OUUTION|

]-[ DROWNED ATyki!

j„. ■ WELLUfOTON, Wednesday. .' /.Tjhe Huia arrived from'rWanganui this afternoon.' Her'chief'officer, Captain Alexander Murphy, was lost overboard during' the passage. It ap-. pears that he was in charge'of the deck' after leaving r Wariganui,.and. when about 20 miles from that port he was seen to fall overboard,, and it/is posed that the suction drew him underneath tho vessel and he was struck by ; th'e propeller, as he was not seen after.wards. :The mystery;isJwhat caused him to fall overboard, but it is surmised that while standing'besidp/the;iiil he fell asleep, over Captain Murphy leaves a wife,- and four ''children .resident ; jn Wellington.. ; An. enquiry wul'W held.' The flags'in the Ipweredto half-mast in respeoli'tbttmemoiy.'.l.J.' ,'..-'.':';,.'

- W-Tur ••■ V.'AucKtANDpMonday. '. . T#iad talks of..yisi|ing ? .;.The. Governor and his suite reached , vambridge yesterday ! afternoon; kiitj iwere,receiyed; :6n.thusiasticaliy by both -Nativesand; Europeans, ■ Tho former presented, a number of beautiful, ina.k ■A petition, numerously -sigheai 4 was also presented to his Excellency, praymfa a diminution Jn the Sentence, of MokaereTe-Papa,'who was sentencedfor'lite "two .years ago..for alleged . murder, by stabbing a the Oxford racecourse;''A very 'general opinion of the public 'at the time was that Mekaere, who is a most peaceful man, nevericommitted the^de'ed/ I ' ,; - - L '

; Ceristchuroh, May 8. .Near ;the, Hinds, station, Samuel Chessbn, a firemanon; tHe Southern express, while : firing up, was standingw#;one foot on/the engine and the •other'on.the tender. Suddenly the couplings parted, and ; Chessqn fell; and the 'whole train passed overXhini mangling him dreadfully. His neck tobroken,:and.hisfrightland and leftfoolwere cut off. -He was'single; ; tjenfe'years of;:as\and jived M ; TimaH,/ . - ; 1 W" **■■ '■«!.■/

, Wamanui, May 8. The weights for the Waneanui Handicap Steeplechase were d&lared to-nighti-Reformand Mount, Ik; Lock? Lomond; (list 111b; Chandler, list 81b,'; Diomedes,* list 71b; Lady Bab, list 51b; 1 Christmas, list 21b; ParnellJvA.G., and Ruahine, list; 'Woodpecker and Dan, lOst 91b; Ngata, lOst 51b; Rata, Pastime, Dhudeen, and Calamity, lOst. THE ? AWAPURUA BRIDGE " ' CONTRACT. '■ , Willingtw, Wednesday. \ .The following tenders were received for the Awapurua Bridgo Contract, Manawatn River, Wellington-Napier railway:—Aceepted, A. McKenzie &, Co.,Dunedin,liH,B24; declined, M,j Panahea,Hawcra l Lls,6oo; Alexandor k Macfarlane, Wanganui, L 16,612; A. Reese, Mastorton, L 16.968; A. Wat-son,,.-Auckland, 1 L 19.422: Smith k Walker,;. Im'e.i'cargill, L 20.012 ; J. Saunders,' Wellington, L 21.149: D. Glendinning, Napier, L 21,999; J. Lookie, Wellingfcpn, L 27,057.

A SERIOUS ERROR. ',' New Plymouth, Wednesday. The second; mate of tho.s.s. Hawera, !sdmehpw r mißt6ok ; the Waitara light for Neiv Piympiith, and,grounded at-the mouth of that river at two o'clock this rabvning on ' m ebb tide] The tide having niade' sufficiently she floated off any damage and atichored'in the 7 rbatlstea'd at 9 km. '•'•ln'the Supreme Court the case 'of IWiells for arson was not concluded last! night, and the jury were locked up •all ijughtr : ' ! The; Judge,' after opening •thejCourt this morning, slimmed up at , ( spme,leugth, andjthe jury; retired. '' 'K .. : -.'!!:v.;i j^)..!.■•■• 2p.m. : •■

liani6lls«waß found guilty of arson, and;sentenced to five years imprisonment, i , :\ : .-..;■ :...