TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1331, 3 December 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own cobrkspondent. ) Obristcbvroh, 30. The Canterbury Caledonian Society celebrated St. Andrew's Day by a grand dinner at Warnerls Hotel, at whiob. national dishes Were served op. So large was the attendance that the accommodation was insufficient for the numbers who applied for tickets. A man named M'Millan was arrested to-day for larceny on the arrival of the train from Oamaru. Accused bad eloped with another man's wife, taking with him a quantity of goods, for stealing which a warrant had been taken out by the fair one's husband. Dec. I. The prospectors, sent out by the Premier Co. to examine the Gorge of the Eakaia, have returned, and report having discovered a gold- ■ earing reef six feet wide. Specimens brought to town show gold, but whether the 3 tone is of a payable nature will be unknown until a practical test is in ado. ■ Dunedin, 30. A correspondent of the Star at Queenstown telegraphs that the enormous aerolite which was seen in the heavens there on Wednesday last, struck the earth near a farm, shaking the ground terribly. The shock waa felt throughout the whole district, and the .atmosphere became close in the extreme. A portion of the aerolite fell over. Skipper's Gully, destroying a stable, and setting a telephone bell rhging.

At the Court Minstrel's performance to-night the Mayor, oil behalf of Mr Hegarty, presented the six men who Wee concerned in the rescue of the boys from Biid Island, with silver medals; It % likely that the conduct of the young man Sloanes and Pembertbn, in saving life at Pleasant Creek during the recent floods, will shortly be recognised by the Humane Society. In connection ifUH/the' Dunedin show Mr- M 'Master gained the champion and first prizes for strong combing merinos, but Messrs Murray Roberts and Co. . gained the • championship honors and carried all before them for fine combing merino's. The Premier has cleaned up 6170z of retorted gold from 480 tons. The Botomahana sails on Wednesday for Melbourne direct, being just four months from -the date of the accident.- •■■•■-■■■-• , In consequence of the delay in completing the Rotomahana's repairs, the Ringarooma joahnot take up the special running between Auckland and Sydney till the 19th insfc •• ■;..-. - Auckland, 1. Mr Bryce had. an interview with Wihanui, Bttwi, $panui,' 1 and other leading Ngatimanigoto chiefs ytsterday» at Bewi's house, Hikikibiki, and urged them ta have their tides investigated in the Native Lands Court* They agreed generally, but when asked to sign an application for hearing asked further time to. consider. It is believed these negotiations will result in the final opening of the King Country to settlement. * v ' ! . ' Tihabu, 1. A locomotive burst at tha station ' this morning with a bad explosion. The top plates of the boiler giving way. The safety valve shot up into space, descending with such force on the platform as to smash a two inch plank. Happily no person was injured. Auckland, 30. . The Shaw Saville steamer Triumph ran full speed on to the Teritiri rocks, just in front of the lighthouse, on Thursday night, an hour after the pilot had left her. Captain Hopkins, of the steamer Blanche, has arrived from Oreawa, and made the following statement to a Star reporter — •• 1 was coming from Orewea in the Blanche early this morningrvt hen 1 observed over the end of the Tiritjiri a steamer's mast with a distress signal on it I hove away in that' direction, and I found that the- steamer was the Triumph, and that jebe was ashore on the island. Her bow was right on to the rocks, within 25 -yards of the cliff. I. went alongside, aind asked if I could give them any assistance. They told me the captain was below. I went aboard and asked, him if I could do anything' ior hiii^JvHe replied. tb>t the harbormaster, would be there presently, so that he did not want assistance just then. Although I had gone three r iniles out of my way he did not even say " thank you-" I went forward and-had a^ldw-attbe foreftolaV It was- partly filled *ri|^ water, and there was a ]pt TEL:- broken timber, fr hich I suppose was immigrants' fittings floating about. , There was about 4ft of water in the compartment, but as it was dirty 1 couldn't see if the rocks were through the, 'bottom. On the port bow there was a lot of- broken rock, one peak not having more than 4ft of water over . it After the Harbor Master had made his soundings I asked the captain -again, if he wanted any assistance, He, replied "No." I left at a quarter .'jiast eleven. The third mate told me that the captain was on deck at the, time of the occurrence, and blue lights were sent up for assistance during J;he night. They had a kedge ': out,' "of: her •* quarter on a wire rope, but it was not well out, being at an angle of 45 ° Captain Hopkins added that the steamer had no t-usiness within five miles of where she had struck. Captain Brotherton seems . completely dazed with his misfortune.,' 1 He is reported to have said that after discharging the pilot oflf RangTtbto Reef he stood towards Tiritiri lighthouse to get a good offing and then lay his course for Cape Golville. He was some five miles out of the usual course. The vessel is lying within some 800 yards of the lighthouse, aud at low water people can walk from the Triumph on to ihe reef and go ashore.