TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1480, 11 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Press Association.

Invercaroili/, Tuesday. The inquest was resumed yesterday on the body of the infant lately found at Woodlands. No additional evidence was forthcoming, and the jury returned the following verdict"That the body of the said male child was found in some water with marks of violence thereon,"but how or by what means it came to its death is to the jurors unknown."

The premises of Deeley and Moir, upholsterers, Dee-street, narrowly escaped being set on fire some time between Saturday night and Monday morning through ignition of a heap of straw in the adjoining shed. How the heap caught fire i 8 not known, but it is supposed to be the work of incendiary. Early on Sunday a fire was discQyeiwJjif $ house in Yarrowstreet, the prqpppfy qf Lawrence Finnerty. A constable got jn by the window, and extinguished the flames. He found that a hole had been burnt clear through the flooring, and that near at hand was a heap of kerosene soaked snrim, rags and paper. An investigation showed tlht through the floor of the porch behind the house, two small holes had been burned, and the surmise is that with the object of making doubly sure the incendiary started the fire in several places.

NbljQN, Tuesday. A deat! boijy withput a head was found on (he sands tills (Horning near the residence of Mr Green, by one .of his sons, It is supposed to be one of tho pilot orew drowned four weeks ago.

- , Boss, Tuesday, The Koss United Gold Mining Company tapped a great body of water on Saturday. It rushed like a millstream down over the ground. All the men at work below had just time to escape with their lives.