Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2975, 13 August 1888, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Rifle Team for Victoria.Sudden Death.

Dunedw, Monday,

It has been decided to send a rifle team to Victoria. Efforts will be made to send an Otngo team to be chosen by competition.

Henry Livingstone, Provincial Auditor, was found dead in his bed this morning.

Wanganui, August 12,

John Ellis, a compositor, recently arrived from Auckland, made a savage ittack upon the landlady of the Customhouse Hotel with a fire shovel. Coopes, a boardinghouse-keeper, who interfered, was also assaulted and cut on the head, Ellis was arrested and taken to tho lockup.

A Maori named Tere Penia, just released from Wollington Gaol, where he had been serving a sentence of three years for horse.stealiugin this district, took it into his head to jump through a storekeeper's window, at half past 10 last uight. In his mad leap he out himself considerably, and smashed the crockery in all directions. The storekeeper attempted to Beizehini, but the Maori threatened to brain him with a saucepan. Finally, several people carao to the assistance of the storekeeper, and the Maori was overpowered and bound with ropes and conveyed to the police station,

Auciland, August 12, Last night, during tho passage of tho Btßamer loiia from Mercury Bay to Auckland, and when tho vessel was about ton miles put, a passenger named George Connor fell overboard and was lost,

CnßisicnuncH, August 12,

- At the inquest on William Bates, killed on the Lyttelton Railway yestera verdict of death by misadventure was returned, no blame being attached to anyono