GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4495, 12 August 1893, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association),

Auckland, August 11,

Inspector Hickson has reported to the Government, concering alleged deaths through the Maori tohiinga id tho North, that tho ciroumstances have been ■ exaggerated, As.' certain deaths were alleged to have Sken place Ihrocgh • the treatment adopted, the tohunga his. promised to abstain from any further treatment of patients, and the Natives have promised to report to the police any cases of malpractice whioli may come to their knowledge. Ddnedin, August'll; O'Reilly, barrister',' appeared at the City Couit charged with drunkenness anil attempting to set fire to the King Street Police Station. He claimed that he was a descendant of the Irish Kings, and behaved in such an extraordinary way that >he Bench romanded him for medical examination. Ohristcmiroh, August 11, At a meeting, of the Amateur Athlotio Association to-night, it was deoided, in "reply to the letter from' tho New South Wales Association', to send two delegates to the oonferencs. which is to bo held in Melbourne at an early date, to disouss matters in regard to sending an Australasian toa'm of athletes to compete at a PanBritannio athletic gathering,' The poll of ratepayers at Lyttelto'n to-day was in favour of the proposal to raise a loan'of £B,OOO "for the purpose of replacing the water main between Heathcoteand Lyttelton, •'