LATEST WELLINGTON News. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2215, 18 September 1886, Page 2

LATEST WELLINGTON News. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] W ellington, Friday.

For weeks past some pci Mm m poison-, at the Te Aro end of the city hnu l>>en playing "TheUhost 'busmen, and minibets of net \ mi> people li,iv e ieceiu>d jrre.it flights. The police h.ivo been on the louk out for some time, but they ha\e been unable to di>co\er tho un>creaiit, ;uid the papeis >>u^s:e-,t th it chaipus of bueLshor miirht c\oici--e the ph'i-st. The Education I )L-p<n tinmt In\e re con t'd lT> applications for the po-ition of pupil teurher at the Deaf mid DumU Institute at SunnuM, but at piesenl, it Inot cert .in whether the (Ji\il "Seivice Hefonn Vet will nitei fere with any .tpp'-int-in 'ut be.iij,' in.ide. .Tainei Mitchell, alia< rv[t'lven/ie, ul-o was cli.UKi'd with lobbniL' I'ieeinan'jewollei\ slMp, wa-s t!n> a-ft^riin >:i comniitted f>>r dial. Willhrn Woods a*id ins mfc, catcier» to the defence foice .it the defence uoiks.t Fort-5 llaUuoli..nl I'ill.ince, were to-day chained on >,cv. i,d inclinations with -Kio, r -ellinp, it bein?: alleged tliey ueie in the h.ibit of -illiujj; -pints to membeis of the foic.\ The evidence failed to sub -tantiate the chaise, and tli3 whole nifi unitiou «,!■, di^mis-ed. Mi W. J. Sn.tt, landloid of the Cential IlotJ, while -t indin-j: on a small table or thefii^t stun*} ut tht iiotel t'n-i .ifiernoon, M.iichmtf foi an e>c i]ie m the £i-> pi|)' j -, over-balanced and ft 11 down the well of tht •»t uici c, i.'ll.iii? hea\il} T on his head, whie! •»tiuck the second stt^p fiom the bott >in The tall must have been a eleai IS feet at least, and Mi Scott weighs l'L stone. Tho result-, weie of comse veiy seno'i^. Scott le ceived a na^ty wound, and it is feaie.i the snine is injuied, and it i> not e\pecte I he will recovei. Scott i^> well known a-, i volunteer and a fiequeut cninp^titor a" the meetings of the New Zeal md Kifl - As-> iciatmn.