TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1235, 17 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■ cfhom ouu qwnoorrespondent. ) AucklandT 16. James Lewis, clerk in the employ of Thome, solicitor, has levanted. He had got into the hands of bill discounters, and his liabilities are £600. There is reason to helieve that he left for Sydney in the Waihora. WtSTPORT, 16. A fatal accident occurred on the Westport Coal Company's incline last night. A boy named Woulders was sent down from Denneston at 4 p.m. with a message, and .not- returning a search was made. The boy was found by his father at midnight, under the trestle work, at a part of the incline known as M'Donald's Hill. One le<* was nearly severed from his body, and he is supposed to have bled to death. The boy went up from the bottom of the incline at dark in the last t uck run, which stopped at the top of the lowest trestle. It is supposed he got out, and attempted to walk the 'remaining distance, but was caught by the truck, and run over. Cheistchurch, 15. Several parties are still working on the Ninety-Mile Beach, and making good wages for this season. A few men were prospecting on Eaikaia Island last week, and were

to a certain extent successful, but the j [ actual results have not been made j known. , ' i The wind has changed, and a heavy south-wester has set in. . The Waimakariri is subsiding. No mischief was . done during the fresh, ' though the -river ■ was higher than known for many years, being in one p.lace within eight-inches of the tdp of the embankment. At the District Court yesterday Frederick King .sued, the* Scottish Imperial Insurance Company for £100, being the amount of an insurance on goods destroyed "by fire on the 23rd April last. After the fire King and his wife were tried for arson, but got off. Judge Harvey, in giving judgment in the civil case yesterday, said the evidence was very conflicting, and he was not satisfied with Mr and Mrs King.: There wa£ not a single itefn in the proof of loss but had been grossly exaggerated, such exaggeration evidently being made with fraudulent intent. Judgment was given for defendants on the»grourid that plaintiff's claim was not based on bona fides. The weather has cleared up, and is now very fine. ''-'" . Tfife^pgdles- 6'f • the pilot men have not^jSjyefr been rec6verefLbv;th.&:boat6fIbui vie oars, stern-sheets, and rudder of their boat have been found. Mr Lowe, the pilot, has been so affected by the disaster that he is now confined to his bed, and Captain j Whyte is acting for him. J Wellington, 16. The Golden , Crown Company have determined to erect machinery on their claim without delay, and have telegraphed to Melbourne for particulars as to supplying at once a compound engine and battery, having all the latest improvements. The directors in the meantime have ordered their' mine manager to open out and fully develop the claim, which is showing rich gold.