TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 10 May 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC THLEfIitAPIT.] [V.KH niKBH AHSOOIATrONI AuckTi.vnp. Mny 1). TliO contest; Tor Fi'anklvn will jvv»l):il)ly lio between llohbs nn.d Harris ot Waika, Both nro (iroy supporters: S.ir. Arthur 'Gordon. Governor ol F ji, rocoived n very friendly rorppti'*n from l,ho Natives ofTongn. Tho. chief* <ti«e, iii-0.l their detorminnli'Mi to maintain (hoir own Government wliiuh Gordon highly praised. Now Zealand Insurance Oompnnv lo>o £2,000, nml tho North British, £M)()0 l>y tho foundering off C«i.pe JTo.rn of the ship Ilnzellino, from Now York f o Sun Franeisoo. Tho risks wero taken by tho San Francisco turontn'of thoso Companies. Wellington, Mny, oh I.B'/8 Arrived, Wukatipu from Sydney. A. special telegram, dated London April 2i)f.h says:— Tho b.arrjuo Oleopat™ which loft London for Melbourne, \n\ Februiry, wan stranded on M'nrcli 22nd, nenr Per' nnmbuco, Armed natives p'nnderod tho cnrgol. Tho crow were rescued. Tho trial of tho Woodio piitent mil' wiiy brake, mnde in Molbouno, was vorv HUi'ecssful. Tho I rnin whih> going 20 £ milrs an hour, pullod up in loss t.hnn its own length, on ft Rradiont of I in 50 without jarring, Tho trnin on dosoo.uling thn grndiont whilo goinor nt fifty six n^i'cs an hour, pulled up in 1500 yards, will of (ho Into Justico Follows vms proved nt twenty five thousand, and Edward Wilson's so fur as it relates to tho, polony, iwonty threo thousand. His interest in tho Argus nnd Australasian, ho loft to his nephew, Withering. Tho muster, nnd ono of tho nrow of tho jjohoonor Ofctnwn woro sontenced to six months hard lnhor for causing tho wreck of tho vessel through drunkonnoss nnd nogligcnco.