TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1375, 10 May 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[UNITED PRESS AB9OUIAIION]

DROWNED AT SEA,

W EiiimoTOK, Wednesday, The Huia?rriyed from: W&nganui this afternoon, He* chief officer, Captain Alexander Murphy, .was lost overboard during the passage. It appears that ho was in charge of the deck after leaving Wanganui, and when about 20 miles from .that port he was seen to fall overboard,-; andit is supposed that the suction'drew him underneath the vessel and'he was struck by the propellor, as he, was, not seen afterwards, The mysteiyis Vhat 'caused him to fall overboard, butit is surmised that while standing: besido the rail he fell asleep and went over the side. Captain Murphy leaves a::,wife.' and four children resident; : iti Wellington,: An enquiry will be held; 1 the;flags in the town:.ww;l(iyeijfid. : ji»; in respect to his memory, :.»> i hi-

; | 'AtiCKL^y^Monda^,. TtwhiM;'tojb'^^)jn^glkr^,-; The Governor and; his-stiite reached Cambridge yesterday j Natives ahd;|Mw^s.j' ( JirLer presented a number of beautiful mats, A petition, numerously; ; ; sijpiied;;; was also ;his! Excellency,'praying for a diminutioii'. iu'the wntence of Mekaera Te Papa, who for life two; years ago for : alleged murdor by stabbing a, Nitiye xn tho Oxford racecourse, A' vory general opinion of,the at;the :time Was that Mekaere, who'.is a mpßt peaceful man, never committed the : ; dee,d.?''

- CnßrsionußCHi ; May 8. '; Near Chesßon, a fireman .ottsjtiie/iSoiithern express, whilo firingoup, i was V standing with one : foot ; on-\the engitieantl the other 'on the; tender.; the; couplings parted,"and the -whole tndn. .passed-, /over 'him, mangling him- dreadfullyr ™Hi?fneck: was broken, and; his. rightv hand and left fool were cut off. - Was single,'' twenty years of ;; age i; :; and l ;liwd at Timaru,

WiNdANUi, : MayB, The weights -for ~the "Wanganui Ha ndioap Stei3plec^ajjo were! |decl4red to-night :-r-Reform aniillouni, I2st ;• Lock Lomondjaiiist; ii 1 lb:j Chandler, list 81b j.piomodes, : 4lst -Tllj'; Ilady Bab, 1 lstSlb'^jGhr^tnias; 1 , list "21b; Parnell, i'lsfcj. Woodpecker and Dan,l6st 9Tb ; Ngata, lOst 51b j Eata,"PaßtimO, J Dhudeeu. and Calamity, Jos| ,

THE AWA P U A, BRIDGE CONTRACT. v:hkv; Wednesday, The following tenders were received for i tho 'Coiilracfc, Manawatn; Rive;, : Napier Co., Dunedm, LHiB24 M. Hawera/WS.fiOOj yjexander & MacMiie,Wnn^hui;'lii'6:6l2: A. Reese, ' Wa^ s o n , ■ AuQkland, 9,422,75mithy cfe Walker, 1 ;'f Sauhders^:WßUington,:,L2l,l49':-D^ Glendinning,! uKapier,': L2l j999 j.i J/ Lockie, Wellington, L 27,057.

,A serious "Terror, I sofflehwimiatook %: W&tara light for 1 this The. tide I having made suiclently she floated anchot^iryihe^ro^ In the Supreme Court the case of 'Banielh'-for-,«ißoii:-WM'.'not concluded; last'night, arid the jury were locked up all The a^r . o^en^ Daniells was found :|uilty.' of ftrsonj" and sentenced to five'years imprison- | ment.