TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4004, 5 January 1892, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[By Telegbaph. —Press Association,] HionoMenalßaljtfaU.; • . AeneußXoNi Janpaty BSgj The heaviest rain since 187£j fell day, commencing at 10 iMa'ajornihJHj find is Btjll contipijing," In 4R just af'er noon, 83 inches in 9 lipur and a quartor at point 1 '25 inch fell, Tlio heaviest Btorra was between lg anif l,butwi9 not general, !fhe hsryeat.TwQrk is atjH going qn, but sipco (lien :the whol<i district baa been visited muoh harm has been done to the'eropa, hufc fortunately there bus been ccraparai lively little wind, otherwise the storm - - must have been disastrous. Yesterday tho crops looked splendid, : ■AfrotractoiVoyaeo. Newcastle, January 4, , The ship lolantbs has arrived safely - after «voyage of nearly 100 'days 1 "<■' from Brisbane.-. Advevse winds were' ■ -

ThoPovorStriotoasbip. Napier, January 4. When the Inverurie Arrives bote, if there is still yellow lever on board, ah« will bo ordered into quarantine ai Wellington, the quarantine buildings here being out of repair, nnJ now surrounded by Miullfivms. Stowaor gamut-mpto Napier, January 4, On Saturday evening the steamer Abu'iii'i'Nsteering went wrong as she was entering the inner larbovr, and she struck the b.b. Fairy, making a large hole in hi r bows, That veseel tank immediately, tine h>d about 100 bales of wool on board for one ot tbo ships lying in the bay. Steps are being taken to rase her, as site obstructs the navigation,

Aociaont3 Bud Fatalitlos. Straago SuioldcNapier, January 4. A man named John MoDougall, was found hanging dtad in Holt's mill vcßterday. Papers on him showed that lie had belonged to Queensland, and had substantial bank balances at Brisbane and Auokland. He worked on the wharves here for a few days, speming somewhat morose and reserved. The verdiot was suicide while of unsound mind. An inquest was held to-day on the body of a Maori who had died while under the treatment of a negro named Lid Mido, who is well known over the Colony. Mido was subjeoted to a long cross-examination to show that under another name he served various terms of imprisonment, but he denied'overything. The medical evideuco showed that the treatment badbeon for the wrong complaint, but that no skill could have 3aved the. patient. The verdict was from natural causes.