TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1280, 6 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. ) Bluff, 4. The Eotomahana ari'ived at twenty minutes to four this morning. She struck Waipapa Point about the samo place as the Tararua. She bumped several ' tinAs, and remained on the rocks about half-an-hour. The tide was three-quarters flood. The sea was smooth, fortunately, and as the tide made she floated off, and came on. There was complete order on board, and Captain Carey was quite master of the situation, ordering everything to be clone, without confusion The sea was quite smooth. There was a heavy swell, but no break. Dune din, 3. Much congratulation was expressed to-day when the steamers Eotorua and Horhoru were brought up to the Dunedin wharves by the Harbor Board's Victoria Channel. The latter was drawing lifi Gin. aft. She is the >

steamer which "will take back 300 bodies of defunct Chinese to the Flowery Land. Mr Menlove, of. Oamaru, shipped 241 two-tooth' Merinos to Londou by the Fenstanton. The nett return,including skins, is 235. Id. per sheep. Two hundred and foity-ono sheep, shipped by the Fenstanton,' realised 265, per sheep. The Trade and Labor Council disapprove of Mr Green's new clause in. Eight Hours Bill, and ask for its with drawal, preferring to stand by the Bill in its original form. Christckuech, 8. Diamond companies are multiplying, The names of the new ones are : — Caledonian, Oriental, Jenkinsoiis, and Pioneer Extended. • More than 20 applications for prospecting licenses were lodged to-day. Several parties have returned from the Ninety-Mile Beach with a few pennyweights of gold, and declare it essentially " a poor man's " diggings. Auckland, 8. No traces have been got of the boys who absconded from the Training School, and stole a boat. It is feared that they have met wifch an accident. The boat has not been recovered. yesterday from Mercer to Auckland. There were four competitors. Mr Conolly's Osrnan Pasha (blue dragon) did the distance in 52 minutes.