TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1121, 7 December 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

WEECE OF. THK SOUTHERN - CROSS.

Special to Times.

Per Press Association. NeLonj. This day/ A small vessel, painted green, of; about 15 tons supposed to be the South" em Cross, :.s ashore on the Nelson side of the French pass, and is a total wreck. Nothing is known as to tbe whereabouts of the crew, but the Southern Cross was owned by Mr Turner, who would be m charge with one man. He would have been on his way from tbe Sounds- to Ne'son and may probably b»ve returned home by boat,

Per Press Association. Wellington, This day. The Second contest (48 hours) between Edwards and Scotfe for Mr White's £103 prize commenced at 10 last night. At 11 o'clock this morning Scott had walked 64 miles and Edwards 62£ miles. In the Appeal Court judgment was given iv the case of the Na» tionai Bank v. Ward (Timaru) the judgment of the lower Court being set aside. Dunedin, This day. A two and a half year old child named M'Laughlanhas beendrowned m the Shag Point Coal Company's dam. TeArohVThisday. The cleaning up of the first month's crushing at Te Aroha is finished. The gold yield is 1701 ozs from ,1000 trucks of quartz. The . New Find mine was the richest, 263 ',. trucks giving 693 ozs. J Auckland, Dec. 6. At a meeting of the Cricket As* sociation it was agreed to guarantee LSO to the Canterbury Association, on condition that theinterprovincial match be played eh the 28th," 29th, and 31st December, so as to be prior to the matches with the Wanderers. Mr John Lundon states that the Parliament of Samoa have unani* mously agreed to a petition for an« nexation with New Zealand, and i will forward the petition to the Pre- | roier and Parliament of New Zaa* land. The man killed at the Whenukiti tramway proved to be Wallace Hender- | son, nephew of the Hon. Thomas ; Henderson, M.Li.C. Dunedin, Dec. 6, j The Hon Mr Mitchelson arrived last night. He received two sma 11 deputations to-day, and visited the Government ! workshops, &c. [ The Lfurerument have granted £800 I for the reconstruction of one of the bildges m Leith Valley, m Maori Hill suburb, destroyed by the recent flood. Wellington, Dec. 6. The Hon Mr Connolly leases for Picton this afternoon to spend the Christmas holiday? at home. He returns early m the New Year. . Cimstchuron, Dec 6. One bundled and two unemployed signed a petition this morning to the VLayor asking him to request the Minister of Works to put them again on work at 6s a day, as at Dunedin. They had been recently discharged from I tbe Addington workshops. Last night Joseph Fantham, a farmer m the Sandhills district, was accidentally drowned m the Waimakariri river when driving home from the Addington sale yards. He leaves a wife and family.