TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1118, 4 December 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

. Special to TIMES., Per Press Association. i . ,Napieir,.This.dajw The body of Thomas Ze>r, se'wnta, one ofthe victims of the recent boat accident on the bar of the harbor, was found on Petane Beach -ye-terdaya At the inquest to-day ■ avi verdict ef accidentally drowned was returned. '.•-,-, AmPer Press Association. " V > + _■;... Nelson, -this.-- daj.^ On Saturday last a house belonging to George Graham,,. standipgon the west bank of the Aorere atjt^L libgwood, was; togethet".with jta con* tents destroyed- by- fire. -Mr Gra» ham^is" 1 a- heavy losee*'^?*^^- -, 5 - It is reported that gold-bearing has'4>eetr : strbek, i«y the* drive andMn^hfe'sliaf-^at ■: Johnß|lw_'s IJnired Mine at Collin^wood. Two foreign sailors. belonging tothe h^ne A May *' Queen?^ left their j^ip^oj.a^frail ,kft the^night af^er the ship s arrival a week a_s*ir_^f_o raft wa^fbumdj_Lh^|o^wj^g morn* ing. Thii morning roe tiro nta

./Twere apprehended m Aniseed Valley. .>;They had been out on the hills since } landing. They have been sent to ; gaoltiU the ship leaves. 'A-i*:y-±77.y. "Wellington, Yesterday. • TKe case of Hunt v. Grordon still occupies the Appeal Court. Blenheim, Dec 8. A 'man named Frank Matthewa, a resident of Hayelpck, who was •^ inSon^ht up recently «>; iuspicion^of being <oi unsound rD^i.;3, and ' dis* charged, v as tKe doct' s differed as to his case, hasbeen >.>iissing since -.Wednesday night.' It is f oared that ;he has drowned himself m the *_*iver A a Nominations for the Marlborough : of 200 soys,* close on v Friday next, the 7th inst. ,: eamTN • i Christchurchj Dec Si .*iA-Ai:'tbe Resident Magistrate's '^Conrt this morning.; Alexander li'Gillan was charged with larceny ~bb Oamaru. He was formerly '".e'rii gaged /to, Mrs Treloar, but went to England, arid on Bis return found -B_e had married. Her husband was . away from home, and thri two came -^■^•^Gbi^tcfeureb,-th'e' "woman tak^ ing B<Jrue:,cf her husband's -property with her. • Itlwas this prisoner wai "■charged 1 with stealing. " His Wo'r»| »hip remarked that it was a case of larceny by implication, and, there! be, no ,ca»e . unless adpilteryl *^^(d' Abo ployed. •' Iflspector, Pen-4 derr.said prosecutor . was not m s> position to prove adultery. Treloa^ formed' the f Bench > that • _ie' - Vas, jjjot. anixous f jtb - proceed witb: 4 ,jtM M_^as ' nis 1 wife.lhad promised tof nJKn with him.; to Qamarn, and jßwas satisfied. A Prisoner was* then discharged. . TheN^w Zealand Shipping Company _*y*eTi^iye_ " ; a- cable that their second: •t'eamer^ the Aorangi, . left London for Wellington, via Plymouth and ithe Gape, on Novimber 30th, with a r full cai^o| and -r!lairie nlinnh^rpf passengers. The; British) King 'reached A the Cape^ r oni *Ndve^lser2Br aud sailed the same day for Wellington. 1 . >The-eji-was a eight; accident on the. 3to|^'teanivray this evening. The; driving grip -d thei'rdpe too quickly * aQditbe car jumped oflE the -axle 1 tree. e_D- then tried -to put a brakcon, but it .didt-not act, and the car began going „_own hill.at a fast rate. The passen-; % er s iump^d off, but'j-nother driver who; o_a|feaii-d-to be ■'on'TiKi car "rnshed^tpl ifheWipper and got '; A of tlie rope.; '^"g'pißen'ger fell and J a slight cut. : The New Zealand B . i i Compeny hare added aHa As machine to ' their works at But nsidi which will bu** ' a_>ln them to freeze 375 Bheepper daj?, ; instead ot_B#. They wiU send eleven or j twelve thousand sbeep^by the Tongariro. «nd have arranged for the despatch of during 1884. , « f *.'-jL tSiljJhd^Wakatipu Mail^denies i the / trttth _f"ilhe' report about diamonds being Barhslaw. , ;'"'-"''^ '.;'' 7„. **;There are nbw , -25Q suhscribsrs' on ,the fwa^a -Telephone Exchange'; others whp^aye japplied cannot at present be acep^^o^iated. „^ v M7y<A.H jJJ^tßakaia Gorge a gold-bearing reef _ai;been. traced crop-ing but salong the Mestjbank of. Norih Cr6ek. (a stream Jlowihg- into Moa Creek, a tributary of '_ie Wilberibrco),. across a saddle 4100 feet up the ranges, and to what is called Unknown Greek, covering a dwtanCe_of about three or four hn'as:.' Samples of luartz showing gold, oVMned from |the ils near North Creek ire on view m fcistchu r ch. The ( lacier .^uar'z ■d Mining Company, to wprk Ifereef, apply for a lease of 13 J acres eaif TSipwhing's Pass. : •^amuel Nicl^l, a railway labourer, was ilooixd dead jiearhis tent at Mosgiel LOta be— rt diseaci. v . -Theßotoni- hanam ade a trial trip this Tneelitplosion at Owa*fce;powder mills on Thursday did'about £200 worth of damage, tbesrwhble building fceinf, aemolished, and «osoie of the:? lighter machinery 7 damaged, T&explo-iori is attribhteJ to a fire which wlS^stsited near the- mill bj» men engaged m $ush felling. It is expected that. work - witttbs rtsomed m three weeka 7 _ „.» It : .A7:A: Wanganui, This day; . Nominations for tbe Wanganui Cup, Frwng Stakes, Wanganui Stakes, and " Bap^ct; Handicap close to-night at 9 4 i 7-7: Reefton, This day. A'fiw broke out m Broaiway street at aud totaliv destroyed Quiglcy's Hotel, ADick'a, Bell's, and Bridge's Tolling's place was c'.ightly l^^A A^t's^r'^^ d*y. IpeAKawatira, when^ proceeding to sealairt^; night, toot^^the ground on the NortK- Spit; a • considerable distance inside the- hat. Her position is not ds||»Tpus. J A A : W-'-y 7 7%