TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 6 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

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Dunedin, Friday.

The Chinamen arrested for fan tan playing on Bp4ay night were brought before the-Police iGourjt yesterday. The two who were-ftbarge'd wis fyejng $e pouparits of the house in wii&h the gamjiig worried on were oach fined Sjo and cpsts, a'n| eighteen others wore each fined ?0s ajij}costs, '

Two cottages at South Dunedin wore burnt down yesterday morning. Christchuroh, this day.

G. Black, a draper of Akaroa, while sailing back from French Farm, his boat was swamped. The Yatch Blackwell while coining up the harbour, found him floating in an insensible condition supported by oars and returned to Akaroa, He is now doing well, A fatal accident happened to, Gardener, a mill owner, at Oust, Early on We,dnesday morning he, by some means of other, discharged a gun and the oharge lodged in his stomach. Dr Gordon attended the sufferer who lingered till,B o'clock yesterday morning when he'expired. Auckland, Friday. ■'.. Te Wheoro is urging the King, not to seek redress at the hands of the Colonial Government. The Home Government, he said; would do' this, and if, aftor six months grace, the Colonial Government refused tp doits duty in : the. matter, Mr Gorst would bo sent out as a Boyal Commissioner, and the whole management of Native affairs would be placed in his hands. ' :.>•. The body of Aleck. Murphy, steer oar of. the Wairoa whale-boat crew, who •syas drowned on the 27th January; has been recovered*

M, de Harvon has gone to Waiwera to interview Sir Julius Vpgel. He brought with- j hin\| from Belgium three, silvermounted fowling-pieceß for presentation to Tawhiao, .Te Tuni, and Te Wheoro.