TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 26 September 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(United Press Association.)

TARANAKI RACES NOMINATIONS,

New Plymouth, Thursday

Handicap Hurdles—Billy-go-by-'em, Caoutchouc, Wide-awake, Blackbird. Blue Bell.

Flying Handicap-Ringleader, Anvil, Laurel, Witiora, Okato, Scotch Mist, Rewi, Last Chance, Buzzard, Awatea, Normanby, Bayard. Steeplechase—Wide-a wake, Billy -go-by-'eiu, Caoutchouc, Blackbird, Blue Bell,

Spring Handicap-Ringleader, Anvil, Rewi, Laurel, Normanby, Witiora, Scotch Mist, Last Chance, Bayard, Buzzard, Moa. Welter Handicap—Anvil, .Laurel, Normanby, Okato, Scotch Mist, Rewi, Bayard, and Awatea.

Wanganui, Thursday,

Johnston, for forging telegrams, has been sentenced to three years, Rees, for the samo offence, comes up for sentence at the next session, pending tho decision of the Court of Appeal on legal points,

Auckland, September 25,

This afternoon a deplorable jrjeurrence,'resulting in the death of 3 w of the contractors, took place at the new Presbyterian Church in course of erection at Surrey Hills. Part of the building had been put up when a gust of wind caught it and blew it down, and Gavin Miller Darrell was struck violently by the falling timber, his head being crushed. Death was instantaneous. Percy« Lipscombe, who at the time was conversing with Darrell inside the building, jumped through an opening and escaped. Dunedin, September 25. At Naseby yesterday, Adam Scott was committed for trial for assaultin with intent William Hayes, an eccentric individual, who is known as Happy Billy. The affray arose over a drinking bout. The evidence was somewhat unsatisfactory, the principal witnesses having been muddled with drink at the time of the occurrence. It went to show that a savage assault was committed, in which a butcher's knife, and a stirrup iron figured prominently. Dr Whitton, who examined Hayes, found several wounds about the hand and cheek, evidently caused by stabs of a knife, also a scar across the throat, such as would be caused by drawing a knife across it. Hayes remembered little or nothing of what occurred. The prisoner is comparatively a new arrival in the colony, and does not bear a good reputation, He is a big, powerful man, while Hayes is the reverse.