VERY LATEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3467, 24 March 1890, Page 2

VERY LATEST.

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Wellington, Monday,

The reason an application lias been in ado to tbe City Council to bring in the C. p. Adyta tly» dating increase, of/the'' (lisW. ' days'm lta ! than 18 persons woro treated at the Hospital. The number is said to be beldw the averago increase, which amounts almost to a small epidemic.' • Arrival of the Kaikoura. Wklmngtos, Monday... The Kaikoura 'arrived in tlj'e harbor at 7,15 a,ni; ..She left Plyloiitli'on 6th February, Teneriffo on 18th, Capetown on March Ist, and Hobart at 1.80 a.m. on the 20th, A good deal of heavy weather was,met jvith during (bo voyage, th|a'clpftVfitSam? ing time being 41 days,' 11 lioursfi)' minutes; stoppages, 1 day, 17 hours, 60 minutes. The total time was 481 days, 4 hours, C 9 minutes." The Kaikoura brings 2000 tons of general cargo, 260 tons of which is for Wellington, ~ A Coal Record Broken.' Westport, Monday. The Westport coal export Inst \voek WBB C 332 tons, the, .largest week on record. •• .Ti}ijißc, Mpiiday;i : Mr Tiu'nbu]rvMiHvKf, A hai' ;: 60 s far recovered from his long ; and painful illness 'ai'to be ihlb bhiirch yesterday. I Cold squallsare experienced to-day,' tho hills ;beii]g ; wjiite with snow... i, '•.'A few' cases of influenza''have appeared here.'. . ~ ( „ .

I Peculiar, Sacking Case--1 Ail Apparent Murder ' - - 'DuKtmN', 1 Moilday. 1 : From lator investigation.,it appears that the body found at Wailiotfaili was contained in a sack, two piccga of iron being placed in the sack to jnep it at tbo bottom of the ditcli, ; Tho police theory is .that deceased was put into the saclc after death, and thrown into tho ditch. ; Medical examination shows that tho bones belonged; ttf a mitn:sft ,9in Jiiglv and an' aged person.' There iB no.'olue'to the identity of the man. Serious Charge Against a Maori.

ARRESTED. FOR - RAPE,

(From Our Owu Correspondent.)

. Gp.evtown, Monday, A native uaiiiod Tuhoro was arrested at.Papawai by Constable Eccloton lasl night under a charge of committing rape on Friday night on a Maori girl, aged six years, named Te Katutakei, The offence is alleged to have been committed in Muir's bush, Papawai, The accused is in Greytown gaol, and will be brought before the R.M, Court.