Telegraphic.
Supposed Drowned. OirmsTCHUitoii, Monday, Joseph Brown, aged eleven years, is supposed .to be drowned in the Heatbcote River, On Saturday night ho went canoeing, and his cunoo was found bottom upwards, but the body lias not vet been recovered.
A Narrow EscapeTisuuu, December 8. A youth marking this morning had the lobe of his right ear shot through by a bullet which got through the butta. .
A Presentation. - Auckland, December 9. An illmminated address and a Bible have been presented to Captain _T, Phillip's, of the ship Zealaiidia, by flip passongers who sailed from London to Auckland in that vessel, THE GISBORNE MURDERS,' The Inquest. . Gisbobn'e, Monday. . At the inquest on Saturday on the bodies of Mr and Mrs Pook,'the jury returned'a.verdict of wilful murder against some'person or persons There tiro now six Natives under arrest on suspicion, but against one only do tho circumstances appear black. This is a Maori named Hairai to Peri, Constable Gprard discovered a boot of Peris which exactly corresponds with tho .footprint about the house and shore, A knife also was discovered believed., to belong to tho prisoner. Tha police are of opinion if a very largo ■ reward and free pardon was offered it might bring to light the accomplice who did not take an active - - part in the murder but who knows all the details, It is, stated by relatives of Pook, that there must lia-ye been £IOO mostly in cash in the store, It is expected the men arrested will be tried about Wednesday,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 10 December 1888, Page 2
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253Telegraphic. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 10 December 1888, Page 2
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