TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1515, 22 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

, ... v .Press .; ( . Ohristoh&ech,' Monday; j'Articles for a it hour/jWalking. match between Scott and Ewards have been signed for Thursday iekt.

Auckland, October 20. The Rangarira (? Kangirivi; Hotel, better known in coaching days as Shirley's, was burnt down at 1 o'clock this morning The owner ■is in town, and the man in charge was' so milch the worse for liquor, that he could not carry a bucket of wator to help to extinguish the flames. Messrs Gerrard and Pul worth, adjacent storekeepers, worked hard, and with the help of others saved nearly every article of furniture. Several cottages were also saved, The insurance is believed to be £350 on the hotel building in the South British Co.

Dunedin, Octoher 21. The operations of the New Zealand Agricultural Company on their Waimea Plains estate show the magnitude of the rabbit pest during the three years ended October last 518.0541bs of poisoned oats were laid on the Company's estates, with the result that 2,586,772 skins were obtained, and as it is reckoned that not much more than one-third of the poisoned rabbits are picked up, the Compiny must have destroyedfully 5,000,000 rabbits during the three years. The most gratifying part of these figures is that, they show that, while for 78,5701bs pf poison laid in the first year, 1,027,350 skinswere taken; in the third year only 564,847 skirts were taken for 302,869 lbs of.poison laid-that is, in the first year nearly 13 rabbits were brought in for every pound of poisoned oats but in the third-year hardly, two rabbits for every pound, .and 462,503 fewer Bkins were paid for in 1882-3 than in 18804,

'; John. Durham, a well-known boat-', man at Lyttejtoii, was found strangled in his house this morning, and James Angus has been arrested on ajpkrge; of murder. Deceased was an elderly ■man, whose wife and family left Lyttelton for Sydney about four months ago, and had. been bjohelorising with Angus, it is said, in Saul's Gully,,off London-street, Ho was, of intemperate habitsfand it is supposed that'intemperance has occasioned the murder.

Lyttelton, Monday, -James,Angus was charged,at the Police Court this morning with the wilful murder of John Durham, but was remanded till Wednesday as the police were not sufficiently prepared ' with the prosecution!. - The inquest 'on the body will be held at 11 a.m. to-, morrow. '-■■■ ■■'■" ;■•■ • Napier,, Monday. A fatal accident is reported. from Potane. :; The • daughter of! Mr W. Carswell, aged fourteen, went out for a walk- yesterday- afternoony .anxbnot re-i turning to tea, her" absence r.cattsqd: alarm,- and; all night -search parties : were out. This morning the body was found in the river- >.- , ■■ v ■ .-V '-i.v.. w ■