CABLEGRAMS AND LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 58, 1 May 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS AND LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

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W^LLDfOTOBr, Tuesday. Mr Wiliiatav light, landlord bfi Barrett; s HqWI, laid anirrforinatioa . ,agjiiiist ( ' William .". O'Qbi^^ L for/nerly ■-" /a oi j^Ucq ;^aiu^ate» . *Ga^%bury^fpr att^i^p^g. % to ,pnt poisoo into a glass of liquor. Light was drinking = with Mm/ <m r Sunday night before going to fed/ and he j»yathat the poison was put into his glasa while hir bapt yga tiagMii^^a^B^^> ca^OHajter^TEe case eAcae before tlf^Mffgisfcrate yesterda-y, and was^e'Shaiided. The oircumstancea -«ee'med so incredible/ -that it wis thought there was.^some nustakel The sediment ia the gltfss watfexamitied'^biracheimist, who. Denounced it, morphia; it was then sent' to another dootor for analysis, .and it, was. .undersfooU it. would not be furWer tesited' wtil prir SKey returned to tdwn,; It^ is "stated" that another iiootor who analysed it bAs'prooou^^ 4t- strychnine^ •• andiithiait x there iiwas:; enoughin thex glass r to kill over^twenty men. The' : ««se iwiUtcdjne'o|»(ag^uHi6ni '■i: ■■'■ The*!' Customs TOrenue 1 ioollebfed' lafe Wellington Mr this nu>tith> amounts^to £13,661, or about £1,500 more than th& corresponding: mbntUiof >lastf' $&&& Sir William Pitzherbert, the Speaker, addressed the; elesetotsj of the Upper ; Hutjtlasi night^faikL^denied thftt tnerowas any foundation for the statements; going fahopt^thatJie^telDuS^ new pa^i%iQl^^^<Bt^Ternment; ol the Gdlony^ and asserted that no. political importance' was-to be attached tux tihte; meeting. 7/ ? condemned i the actipjo: pf jtfee "people offth& GploiCT^in renouaoingr jgrfflhnxyilisin for something much Hnf erior^ as the hopes; : held out that the v . change would b» beneficial had not heea realised^ They had, S6me , knowledge; thett; of; h«w they were governed* hnjtraawjth I length, jand! b^eadthjottl\e lai^Government was nothing but '"■a mystery. In replying to a/ questiion^^hfiisjaid that. h& : : was opposed jto promiscuous manhood^ : suffrage. He would ' not pledge him.self.to sappprt^ this or that maa ia Parliament^ and would alwayi act a& his conscience dictated^ At con- ! elusion ' of the address- ail 'unanimous: | TOte^ ofcoiiiSdence was passed..