TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1284, 15 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. ) Christchurch, 13. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board 38 applications for prospecting licences for diamonds were granted, and 57 who had entered their names did not appear. Mr M'Leau, with 14 years experience in the diamond trade, who has been commissioned to buy diamonds has inspected a number of stones at Timaru, Ashburton and Christchurch, and declares that there is not a single diamond among them. Dunedin, 13. George Robertson the Maori, has accepted Joseph Strong's challenge to wrestle border style, for the Caledonian Societies belt, the championship, and £50 aside. The match will take place in six or seven weeks. Invercargill, 14. At a special, meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a number of reasons why the Bluff should be the port of call for the direct steam service with Britian were pointed out and ordered to be telegraphed to the disdistrict members. Terawhitt, 14, 9 a.m. The washing up in connection with the crushing of the Golden Crown j quartz was completed last night, the ' amount of amalgam obtained being '

221 ozs. The work of retorting was ' ' commenced immediately and early j i this morning was finished, the final j result bein£ 75ozs, 15xlwts. of-rfctorted , gold from about sT> ; t<Jhs of stane^ The | : battery is ; . expected 'will commence j woi-fcr tQ-hibrrow with-, the stone from the; Ajlbion ;Company's claim.! X ": /./'■•.; ' y-X " NABEBY,,iS.\ '^ A fire attended witW/fotttL consequences took place shortly'after 11 o'cjpck on Satui^pyj^hli_^dw£UiQg--^ house occupied by Mr Lindsay, alias Cockrofb and a family of; % bei^ totally destroy edl ... Gisboune,. 13. The Resident Magistrates to-day dismissed the complaint of Mr C. A. Delatour M.H.R. and Kerr for alleged libel. Nelson, 14 A dreadful catastrophe . occurred here this morning, when" four of the pilot crew were drowned while attending on the steamer Wanaka. The names of the four men who composed the crew were Wm, Morrison, a widower, but with several children, Wm. Reader, widower, Thomas (known as Little Dick) and a forigner named Glalis) Onanson^hbth: single; ; sSe^eval boats have gone out in search of the missing^efti l^*^ % ~ ' '