TELKGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1691, 14 April 1886, Page 2

TELKGRAMS.

(FROM OUK OWN OORIIKSPONDBNT.) WRECK OF THE S.S.TAIROA. Fearfal Loss of Life,

THIRTY TWO LIVES LOST. OTHERS.MISSISG. WHXINGTON, 18. Intelligence has been received here of another tmiblc shipping disaster, resulting in the to|al loss of the Union Shipping Company's-" steamship Taiaroa, off he coast to the south of Cape Campbell. The disaster occurred on j Sunday evening, the weather in the Straits being very bad at the time. The news has cr^aled a profound sensaHoffTtlnßHigsiHfSo oft tMKmI The Hifated ship being a tmmber of promin eufc New Zealand colonists, who havo J lost thoir lives. 'f|Hhit>g'itfyet known ) as to the cause of tbe disaster, though other vessels in the Strait!) ou the same night report Srery !ad weather. The Taiaroa was 440 tons register, ! and 500. horse- powai*. £ Later. The n.K Taiaros| which left here on Sunday last for LyiMton was wrecked at 7 o'clock on Hjwnday night, .about j three quarters of * mile. ,uortti "of the mouth ©t the C^rwnce niver. The steamer has been abandoned, and there were thirteen pasieugerßdrowm-d, including the wife of Mr G G. Fitz t geraUl, editor of the Timaru Herald, i aud B. H. Vailagtce. the well-known ! sportsman, Nineteen of the crew are drowned. The crfw aud passengers took to the boat! almost immediately j the steamer struck, hnt owing to the high seas three of the i>outs were swamped. The captains boat with 10 of the crew and passengers drifted out to sea, but has since turned up all right. Tho total |number saved was six pissengergjand oightjjjof the'erew. It is quite uncertain how many were drowned a» it 18 supposed that a good number of paiwuri^ers were on board who had nol booked. , , Duns mx, 12. At the . Siipr«m«][Court true bills w«re found in *j»|i t> )ho;, oa^ For illegally fH«ujn||^ : Mr-«d Volley got three years. Peter Silverton, who: was brought np on a charge of indecently assaulting bis daughter^ 12 yearn of age, behaved ! rather strangely, attd said ♦• Before ' God I plead guilty, but not before man." One witness, stated that many ' believed prisoner not to be in his right mind. The jury* in finding the pris | oner guilty, said lhat medical evidence | should have Iteen given, and censored the prisoner's son and daughter-in-law ' foi not taking rteps when they heard . the convevsation )>«tween the fatlter , and daughter. He was sentenced to seven years penal servitude. John > Wilson pleaded guilty to larceny and ' was s*entencotl to three mouths. ' Geora;o Berry, for ''stealing from the person, was seat^iKjtd to twelve months. Boiijamiil Budel, for shoot- i ing with intent, was found not guilty, * Only two case* now remain to be ' tried. ' The first meeting of the newly eon- . stitiited Dock flout was held today, Mr Mueaiiditiw »aid in i-efcimtee to I

the question of borrowing money that he thought it could be obtained at a low rate of interest It was resolved to ask the Government for a number of the unemployed to go on with the earthworks I It is feared that one of th« Colonial Bank staff named Gowring has got lost in the country between Lake Wakatipu and] Lake ManapourL He U'ft on a walking tour on the 25th March, and has new been absent a week beyond his time. ;.-' AUCKLANB 12. On the'anival of the Hawea, Emily Walsh, a married woman, who was accompanied hy her husband, was arrested] on a charge of absconding from her creditors, with a view to defeating proceedings under* the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. She was admitted to bail, her husband depositing securities. Accused is ajlady like £young woman. It is rumored that John Hemersley, cellai'man <»f Hancock's Vewery, has dropped dead.