NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS [BY TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1527, 18 April 1882, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS [BY TELEGRAPH — OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

MERCER, Yesterday. Jopkpii Moffatt, a settler, of Whangalata, was found drowned io a creek on Saturday. He had been missing since Monday last. He was prone to fits, and consequently of weak intellect. An inquest will be held to-morrow.

PATEA, Last Night. The steamer Pataa was abandoned to the underwriters yesterday. Captain Beudall arrived on Saturday with appliances, and attempted to get her off by the evening tide, but she was hurled violently against the cliff, a quantity of which fell upon her, and her hull being stove in she filled with water and sank. The water running on and into the donkey engine theve was a miraculous escape of it bursting. The Patea was insured for half her value, as follows :— Union, £1000 ; South British, £1000 ; Colonial, £500.

MASTERTON, Last Night. A yomig Swedish engineer named Charles Rentjen, .recently arrived, shot hitnaelf through the forehead with; a double-barrelled pistol last evening, near Mauriceville. Death was instantaneous.

LYTTELTON, Last Night. The prisoner William Hart, who was convicted on a charge -of rape on' a/little girl at the last session of the Supreme Court, underwent his first flogging in the gaol this morning. Charles' James Emmett, convicted of attempted rape on a child," was also flogged this*" morning. The punishment inflicted in each case was deservedly severe. Martin's Black Horse Hotel, next the Sunnyside Asylum, was burglariously entered, and an iron 'safe containing about £300 and several deeds was carried off from a room opening into the bar. Examination of the premises leads to the belief that an entrance was effected through the window,^ and that the bar door was opened" from the inside. The safe must have been taken through the door, and there are indications of its having been rolled over and 'over from the door to a cart in which it was carried away. A cart belonging to a farmer named Jas.- Carrick, which/had been left opposite the hotel on the previous night, is now missing, and a hoi-se belonging to Martin's son-in-law, 'which it is believed was used in the cart, was yesterday afternoon found by the police on the South Town Belt. At;the Magistrate's Court, this morning, Henry Lamb, 11 years of age, for sticking up and robbing another boy of 2s, was ordered to the Industrial Home for four years. '' ,; : Over six thousand people visited the Exhibition on Saturday. The total receipfe'for the week' exceed those of the first week of the Adelaide Exhibition by £355.

DUNEDIN, Last Night. .1' At the City Court, Thomas Hodge was cprainitted, for trial for robbery from the person. , . . . Ei the Supreme Court the libel action Turnbullv. David Proudfoot was-com-menced. The , libel .alleges that Turnbull and Sathgate attempted to work a swindle by foisting some valueless' lands on the New Zealand Mortgage and Investment Company. The letter is anonymous, and sigtfeii ."A Friend." It was addressed Sir~-W. .Drake, London, , chairman qf the cjoinpany. - , -»

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