TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3458, 13 March 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Blenheim, March 12. The Supreme Court sessions opened to-day, before Mr Justice Richmond. The criminal calendar was a light one, No bill was found against Thomas Shaw for attempted suicide, and true" bills against Delbeck, for forgery; Green, for larceny; and Hilliard and Buttler, for larceny. Green pleaded guilty, and received one year's hard labour, Delbeok pleaded not guilty, but was convicted by the jury and sentenced to three years' irnprisonmont.

DuKEDiir, March 12. It isstated that one ofthe applicant! for relief at tho Benevolent Institution had, when h arrived in tin Colony somo years ago, .£OB,OOO ii his possession.

Fatalities. Auckland, March 12, A settler named Reece, wliils engaged in extinguishing a fire whicl had caught a furze hedge boundinj his estate, was rendered unconscioui end died in a few moments. It ii

considered that he was suffocated, oi that he succumbed to heart disease, A child aged two years and a half, daughter of It. C, Fraseiydied at Tauranga from tho effects of poison, caused by eating the heads oi matches, .

An old Auckland resident, Samuel Wolliugton, died suddenly yesterday of apoplexy at Varhworth, where he had gone to visit some friends. Tho deceased came to tho Colony about MS, and was then iu the 58th regiment.

Dunedin, March 12, Alexander Pettiford, about 74 years of ago, who was bofore the Court on Tuesday for drunkenness, died in tho Hospital, where he had beon sent. Death resulted from enteritis and gonoral weakness, apparently from chronic alcoholism.

Scarcity in Water. Reefion, March 12, The Inengalma river is lower than it has erer before beon known sines the town was established, Tho want of water is seriously felt. Most of the quartz batteries aro disabled in consequence.

Dunedin, March 12, The position in regard to tho water 1 supply is becoming serious, and unless rain falls shortly great inconvenience will be experienced. The supply is about equal to 12 days, The committee hnva stopped tho supply to: engines, lifts, etc. The weather is; threatening tonight.

The Carter's Strike.

Auckland, March 12, The number of carters now out on strike has not been increased to-day, This evening a meeting was held in Kobson's Booms, when it was unanimously resolved to lorin a branch of the Now Zealand Federated Carter's a largo number of members were at once enrolled, A committee was appointed to interview llie employers of the men who have struck work (Winstone and Craig) to-morrow, in order to endeavour to settle the present dispute,