TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2181, 29 December 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

' United Pips A^opi^iotj, Wellington, this day, fhe following tejogram was received by % Qefgfice Minister yesterday afternooi),: ; Wairoft, ($)) JJe'cenjbor.' |e KQbti's party of 225 crossed top a.m. to-day. They passed the palvwi't!}r out a word being spoken on either, side, Arata, the chief who entertains Te .Kooti here, sawßahana, of Petane;, who' murdered Karaita here long ago. He requested that Rahana should be sent baok arid not allowed to visit Wairoa, and Te Kooti

sent, him back. It is expected that the party will reach here this evening. ; There is no excitement or anxiety whatever. It is unknown whether Te Kooti intends going to Poverty Bay yet." . ; A fatal drowning accident occurred in' the harbor to-day off Petone beacli. Two hoys named Joseph Dodd and Charles Styles, aged 13 and 17 years respectively, were out in a .dingy, when the boat capsized, Dodd was drowned, and Styles rescued, but by what means no information haß yet been received, Dodd's body was recovered shortly afterwards.

Auckland, this day. James Hart and Joseph Slatter, while fishing at the Tairua, were drowned by capsizing their boat. Marion Shelton, aged 15, was drowned at Cambridge while bathing. Arthur Fellows, a youth, was trampled to death by a horse at Papakura, while catching it. , ; , Mrs Enisdean ffcll down stairs and broke her neck. It is supposed sho was under tho influence of liquor. The carpenters' strike is practical euded, the strikers returning to work. Ohristmiurch, this day.

Mr C. C, Bowen has' received a tele pram from London to the effect that a very responsible syndicate in London will probably take up the'contract for the East and West Coast and Nelson railway in January. Enquiries have also been made in Berlin about the work.

At the instigation of the police the body nf the boy Hazelhurst was exhumed, and examined by three doctors in the presence of Inspector Pender and Mr Martin, the Crown Prosecutor, Portions of the discolored flesh were preserved for furthur examination. The doctors agreed that the discoloration was tho result of blows which caused death. Louisa Morrison was injured in a tramway accident, and died last night. Dunedin, This day.

Judge Williams presented medals and certificates of the Eoyal Humane Society of Australasia to J. C. Miller, Richard Phelan, and Wm. Potiki to-day. Miller and Phelan swam out and saved two High School bovs on an island ojf Ooeaji Beach, Win.' Potiki is a Maori, and swam in and saved Mrs Morrice at Port Molyneux, the Rev. Morrice being drowned on the same occasion, trying to. save his wife. Phelan has at different periods saved six persons from drowning, and one from a runaway horse.

In the cricket match, Otago's first innings closed for 136. When play ceased for the day, Canterbury in the second innings had lost three wickets for 95,