TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1707, 10 June 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,

Auckland, Monday. A sailor named McMastew has been killed by falling from the rigging of tho barque Himalaya in'tho harbor.' The Kugby Union telegraphed to Sydney inviting tho rqpsesentativc team to return that way and play a match against Auckland./

The young man Terry,' supposed to have been devoured at Wairoa south by wild pigs, was found on the road in an apparently dying condition.: It is believed that he was thrown from his horse, !

Mrs Patterson, landlady of Fitzroy Hotel,' intends to proceed against Mr Newmanj.' Chairman of. City. East Licensing Committee,; for slander, in having said that young,.girls, were harboured in her house.

. DuNEDw;.;Monday. At the inquest on the child of 'Sterling the evidence of' the mother was that she gave her child to her six year old daughter to nurse while she went'out.to clean up a-.shed in the back yard, and on her: return, after an absence of ten. minutes/ she found the baby's clothes on lire, and nearly all burnt. She dressed the child's burns, but medical advice was not obtained. The jury returned an .opeWwdictjjarid, i'libtiti? pnj their 'reeommemlarion,'' 'the 1 v c6l'6iier cautioned the iiipthei; for inhuman, unmotherly, conduct, informing her that ihiul;there been; muck", more ;evidenoe, there would' 'probably 'Mv'e'"' been' a verdict of manslaughter against her.