TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 May 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

— , — » [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [PBB PRESS ASSoOIATroN.] Wellington, May 25. At the Police Couit tewday charges against the captain and officers of the Manawafu were heard. The captain, for proceeding to sea without the full com- I plement of men, was fined 203. W. ! White, parser, for falsifying articles, was fined £5. Ihe charge against the agent, for fraudulently shipping men, was dismissed. Tvfo man (unknown) were drowned in Wairara Lake on Saturday. They were endeavouring <o drive a mob of cattle over the month of the lake, when the boat in which they were in cap^zed. The other has not yet been recovered. At the irqnest to-day on the body of ' William Kemp, killed on the railway on Saturday, a verdict of accidental death [ was returned . The Government has received an official telegram from Bombay, stating I that a steamer named Gerne. flying Liberian colors, left Aden on 24th April for Port Britton. and that she has on board arms and ammunition, and a number of persons of various nationalities supposed to be on a filibustering expedi tion. Chbistcht/bch. May 25. In consequence of the unsatisfactory stste of affairs between the City Council and the Tramway Company, the former have found it necessary to appoint a Committee to deal specially with tramway matters. A butcher named Taylor accidentally fell out of a cart a day or two since and injured the back of his neck, paralysis ensued, and the man is gradually dying f>y inches. H. Patterson, master of the schooner Maggie Patterson, was fined £10 at Lyttelton to*day for anchoring in the fairway on May 18, and obstructing the approach to the wharf. He also was fined 20s for not having a light burning, though he had put one up it had by some means gone out. Auckland, May 25. The City of Sydney sailed for San Francisco at 5 p.m. In hauling alongside of the wharf at 3 o'clock this morning in charge of the pilot she struck the main T near the centre of the woodwork. The structure where the steamer struck was crushed like an e K «nell, and the pl at . form for a distance of 50 feet completely carried away, and damaged for a further distance of 100 feet. Ten piles were smashed off. and others strained to such an extent as to require removal. It is estimated the repairs will cost over £500. The son of Dr. Goldsboro, aged 16, died ye-terday, it is believed from injuries received in a rough and tumble u&me at the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell, of which he was a member.