TELEGRAPHIC.
(United Press Association.)
Invercargill, August 9. A singular case was heard at the Police Court to-day when an old man named W. Martin, a ifarmor at Otereamaika was charged with killing two horses, the property of an adjoining settler named W. Patron, by poisoning them with phosphoriaod oats. The principal evidence against the accused was given by members of his own family. Trouble appears to have arisen through the old man objecting to his daughter's marriage with Patron, and he was recently fined for striking her in" the face. While her father was in gaol on remand she married Patron. Sho did not give evidence against her father on the more seriouß charge. Martin waß committed for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being allowed in two sureties of Ll5O each, and himself in L3OO.
Acokmnd, this'day. Ohas. Anderson fell overboard from the cutter Mayflower in a gale off Tiritiri yesterday, and was drownod.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2369, 10 August 1886, Page 2
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155TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2369, 10 August 1886, Page 2
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