TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1291, 31 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. ) Invebcargxll, 30. A destructive fire. occurred at Wyndhatn this morning. The buildings destroyed were Dunlin's Farmer's Arms Hotel (with hall attached), and J. Rankin's store. The tire broke out in the hall, and so gave time to save a large quantity of furniture from the hotel. Hawera, 80. The Maoris yesterday burned down the whare of a Native who seduced the wife of the Maori who hanged himself last "week from jealousy. The Maori says he will not abide l»y Maori law, but lay informations against the offenders. Josephine Green was brought up on remand charged with child murder. Mr Hutcheson defended the prisoner. The Eev. Mr Williams, Wesleyan minister, to whom the girl said she had given the child, deposed that he only spoke to her once, and know nothing of the child. A baby's dress and flannels, much soiled, were found in a hedge down in a gully near here. Mrs Hughes, midwife, swore she made the dress and flannels, and that the child was wearing them when the mother took it away. The theory of the defence is that the child vas given to George Williams, a married man, father of the child, now supposed to be living in the Forty-Mile bush. Every effort is to be made by the police to discover him. A special man is to be sent to trace him. Wanganui, 29. Three Maoris from Kaiwahaki, ten miles up the river, were to-day committed for trial at the Supreme Court, .on a charge of unlawfully wounding John Percy. The affair rose out of an attempt by Percy to impound cattle belonging to one of the defendants, which were trespassing on Percy's land at Kaiwahaki. The hearing of the remaining seven informations against William Lingard, late brewer, for fraudulent bankruptcy, has been postponed till Monday, through the illness of defendant. 30. News arrived in town to-day that a party of surveyors, under Mr Eochefort, Government Surveyor, engaged on the survey line for the central route of l ail way through the North Island, were stopped by a party of Natives at Murimuhi. A few days back some assistants were sent back another way, and Rochefort and one assistant were imprisoned for twodays, and threatened to be shot. Full particulars are not yet to hand, but it is said that Eochefort has been liberated. An extraordinary tidal wave has been experienced at Lyttelton, Tarua, and Auckland. Dunedin, 29. The three boys were formally brought up before a Justice of the Peace at Clinton to-day. The police withdrew the charge, as the matter had been sufficiently investigated by the coroner's jury. James and Alexander therefore stand committed for trial at the Supreme Court for manslaughter, and John goes free. Auckland, 30. A scene occurred in the Police Court to-day by a rather notorious woman named Anne Vessey, who was charged with using obscene language. While the principal witness, a woman, was giving evidence, the prisoner drew a saucer from the folds of her dress, and struck the witness twice violently on the head, covering her with blood. The Court sentenced prisoner lO two months' imprisonment.