TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1088, 17 May 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

.» (from our own cokiiehi'Oxiji'Nts.) Timaru, May 14. A terrible calamity happened in the harbor today. During the night a heavy soa Avas running. At 1 o'clock the ship Be- * venue broke adrift, and j the crew left in open boats for the City i Perth. The latter ship rode by a single Lcw-.vslt uu til o'-io p.m, a\A*jU she

parted, and both wrecks came within a short distance, of each otlier. Before the City Perth parted her hawser, all crews left in four boats. The mate had both of his legs broken by the recoil cable. Great anxiety was felt for safety of the boats, as a heavy s<*a was running, but all got inside the breakwater safely soon afterwards. Captain Mills, harbor master, with a full boats crew, went off, and two other boats followed. Captain Mills got on board, but soon after hawser parted, and three boats left for shore. On Hearing the breakwater, terrific breakin «• seas swamped one boat, and two others turned back to rescue men who could be seen standing up in the swamped boats. From shore, hundreds of people witnessed the accident. Tlie excitement was intense. Of the two other boats which turned back to the rescue, one got swamped — a terrible sea white with foam having caught her. When the sea passed, those left were s*een stripping. The life boat was got out, and sent to the rescue, but after getting some on board the same fate overtook her. The life boat was seen to right, and full of men, but apparently helpless, and a terrible sea kept sweeping into the harbor, and a a surf Jbpat, *wMe_t jSMfe to help the^ilwyning 'men, w^s fn imminent* danger without being able to do any good. The shore is no w, at 5 *1 5 p. m. , lined with agonised spectators powerless to help the boats left and men perishing a few hundred yards off. It is not known how many have perished, as the boats are still heaving in the sea, and no help from the shore is possible. It is feared that all will be lost Both vessels now lie in Caroline Bay. Later. The life-boat has just come in with Captains Mills, and Bill Corliss, the Harbor Board coxswain, a brave old Yarmouth boatman — they ar . both safe, and a number of others apparently in number not moie than her own crew. Four boats were involved in the disaster, whose crews must have numbered at least 30 men. The surf boat is still out helpless, and if the boat with a fresh volunteer crew of brave fellows, is just going to her rescue, it is impossible to say how many lives have been lost Conjecture varies. From* six to twelve men in the life-boat were nearly exhausted, and were carried up to the Royal Hotel in blankets -amid vociferous plaudits of three 1 thousand people. It is now ebb tide, and a fearful sea is breaking in the harbor. Intense anxiety is felt for the safety of the surf boat," as it is almost dark, and she has apparently lost all her oars. 6 p.m. The life-boat has just returned with a part of the crew of the surf boat, A heavy sea struck her, and she capsized, but lost none of the crew, and she had to leave the surf boat with j three or four men still on board. A fresh crew has gone off. Captain Mac Donald, of the City Perth, was in the accident, and is weak. Captain Mills is very much exhausted. The first life-boat was grandly handled — the first time by Jack M'lntosh, coxswain, and by George Fiulay the second time, it is reported that seven or eight lives have been lost. New Plymouth, May 16. A meeting of tho creditors of Halse and Roy, of which tho late Halse who committed suicide, was a partner, was held today. In round figures the liabilities of Halse's private estate are £9000, assets, £500. Liabilities of the firm £12,000, assets L 2,000. LIO,OOO of the liabilities of the firm consisted of money withdrawn by Halse for his own use, and L 2,000 raised on mortgage. Wellington, May IG. At Poliarama a Native who stabbed his wife and another Native, has been caught by tho Maoris, who punished hiui by dropping boiling water on his face, and applying burning rags to his back and spine. Intelligence from Fungarehu state that there is no indication of any monthly meeting being held at Parihaka to-mor-row. A suicide under peculiar circumstances was attempted last night at the Mech- < anics Restaurant, by a man named Walter Wilshirc Vause, at one time postmaster and telegraphist at Alexandra South, and who had been respondent in the Divorce Court yesterday, when his wife obtained a rule absolute on the ground of adultry and desertion. It appears that Vause went to the Restaurant, where he ( was boarding, in good humor about nine p.m. he went up stairs into the bedroom of a fellow-lodger, who is a volunteer, and took his carbine, which was loaded, and discharged it into his left breast. He noAvs lies in a very precarious condition. He has lately led a loose life, and has served various terms of imprisonment.