VERY LATEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4032, 8 February 1892, Page 3

VERY LATEST.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association,) TnoFato of an Alplno Tourist. New Plymouth, Monday, The body of Soutlnvood, who ascended to the top of Mount Egmont in April last and has never returned, was found yesterday, at the foot of a precipice over whioh he had apparently fallen. The body was in a good statu of preservation, and could only have recently been exposed to the air,

Bamako to Drops. TijiarU, Monday. It is feared that .the heavy rains and easterly gale of the past thirty hours has done great dumago to the crops in South Canterbury. Tho Barque Irene Ashore. Timaku, Monday. The barque Irene, ready for sea, and wool laden, broke the ring of her mooring buoy, and drifted ashore at the side of the harbour. She was towed off again, and there was no ascertainable damage, Phenomenal Rainfall. Chiustohuhii, Monday, The phenomenal rainfall in Canterbury on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday excites serious (ears for the crops instooknnd standing, It is now fine, but threatening. The Lytlelton Times says that the results of the use ot shearing machines in some of the sheds in Amuri County this year have given such satisfaction to the owners and operators that thero is little room to doubt that the old hand-shears will soon be a thing nf the past, so far as the large stations sre concerned.