TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3098, 8 January 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Death from a Precipice.

•:' Gseymouth, Tuesday,' Timothy, Dennis,-.'aged CO years, this morning fell over a precipice' on the Ahaura Biver, about sixty feet, on. to the shingle bed below. He was killed instantly, tho body being terribly crushed. Dennis kept a hotel at Daysford in the early days, Tlie Supreme •

Wellington, January 8, At the Supremo Court. to-day, James White, who yesterday pleaded guilty to two charges of horse-stealing, was sentenced to four years penal servitude, the sentences to run concurrently, The'prisoner was. previously convicted of robbery,- -and 1 robbery under arms at Ohristchurch and Duneclin.

John Henry Bonuor alias Calthorpe, v wlra yesterday pleaded guilty to three charges of forgery and uttering was sentenced to nine months oil each charge/the sentences to run concurrently. His honor said he took.into consideration tho faot that the prisoner had served a sentence in Hokitika gaol on a similar charge subsequently ;to commission of offence for which he is now sentenced, Another Gold Field. _ Inveroargill, January 7. A private telegram from a digger Who has been many years -on the Nevis goldfields, indicates that there is money to'be made there, and instauies tlie case of a rabbiter who, while searching for.pelts,||noticed auriferous indications about" a burrow, set- in, and in a few weeks deposited 271b weight of gold in the bank, The writer says that there is ground available On.the field for hundreds, probablg thousands, of men; with fair prospects of making a living.- The country is very high, and can only be worked in summer, but water is always plentiful.

Dunedin Exhibition, ..-.■■. .■.'. ■ Dunedin, January?. ' At a meeting of the shareholders .of the' Exhibition to-night it wis announced that 10,298 shares had been paid for and completed, 550 had been applied for but not completed, and there was a sum due of £875 by way of advertising. The Bank of New Zealand had intimated they would respond to a call,- and it was believed that"the other-banks would follow. A vote was then taken for a site, when, by. a large majority, the central site in Crawford street . ; . block, recommended by the' Directors, was carried, . A FatalScuffieT

■ WiNQANui, Tuesday. j.". Newß reached town of the-death of William Kells, storekeeper, Waitotara who had a souffle with a Maori, and died of heart diseise. It is said the latter struck him several times with a four pound weight, but this was not confirmed on the-police enquiring,

The Governor Returns, . Auckland, Tuesday, His Excellency the Governor left for Wellington this morning, /. JHIPWRECKS- ' - Six Men Drowned- .';.,■'• Auckland, Tuesday. . When the mail steamer Mariposa left Honolulu, the H.M.S, Hyacinth I was in port.wMther she had brought the shipwrecked crews of the German ship Hermand and Jbj Swedish barque' Virgo. They \yero both wrecked at Maldon' Island, where they had'been loading guns on November 27th. The captain,' mate, and foiir of 'the Wew'/'bf the Virgo' were drowned by the boat.oapgizing in the surf. :■".•:'