TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON, September 24, The barque Kate Tatham, which went ashore in Cloudy Bay some time ago, while on the voyage from Newcastle to Napier with coal, has been enccesßfully floated off, and this afternoon was towed into Wellington, She will be placed on the slip for repairs. CHRISTOHUBCH, September 24. A cricket match has been arranged for next Friday between a Canterbury eleven and eleven of Shrewsbury's team. On Thursday last the cutter Hero drifted on the rocks'at Le Bon's Bay, and waa wrecked. The crew, consisting of three, were saved. • On Saturday morning a two-year-old son of Mr J. D. Manship, Halswell, waa drowned in the river near his father's house, from which he was absent about half an hour before being missed. Jas. Cotter, .Andrew Black, and Richard Chamberlain were committed for trial this afternoon on a charge of assaulting and robbing Edmond Desmond whan drank of £14 on September 15. INTERCARGULL, September 241 A young man named Rudolph Radka, who w£s committed for trial on the 17th on a charge of arson, escaped from gaol between 10 o'olook last night and 5.30 this morning. At the former hour the indicator on tba~cell door showed that it was locked, hut Badka must have tampered with it in soma way so as to make it giva the wrong reading, for the coll was vacant" this morning, and a wire clothes line dangling over tha front wail showed only too plainly the meant used to effect his escape. Once out of thrcell Badka had simply to unbar a door, pick up the clothesline, make a loop in one cud ani throw it over one of the small turrets surmounting the front wall, haul himself up thf lower line on the other aide, acd drip on to the asphalt pavement outiide. He is ia ordinary drais, wbioh of oourse favors hit ehanoe of making good his atUmpt at secur* ing his liberty. The alarm, was promptly given, and the police and warders are n»W. Eoouring the district. BLENHEIM, September 24, A etabbing affray occurred at Port Underwood on Saturday, Edwin Baldwin stabbing his brother. William with a sheattt knife in the side. The affair arose out of a family quarrel, The man was arrested at Pioton. The exact extent,of the injury ig sot known, but it is believed to be serious. DUNEDIN, September 84. At Arrowtown yesterday the body of Miohael Joseph O'Oallaghau was found ia the Cardrona river. The deceased was. i teacher in the Catholic school at Arrewtown. Early in July William Lindsay, a farmer at Stratk Taieri, attempted suioide by discharging a pietol at his head, and while being conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital He escaped into tbe bush and was never discovered till Saturday, when tho body was found in tha creek 1000 yards from whare he effected his: esoape. - A fire at Clinton to-day destroyed the Prince of Wales Hotel, Lange's store, the i police station, and Hunt's tailor shop. The railway station had a narrow escape. The South Island football team to play against the Englishmen on Wednesday wi»l oompHse Thompson, full baok; Lynch, J. B. Thompson, and Harper . (Nelson), threequarters ; Crozford and Downes, halves; Anderson, Hunter, Morrison, Stepliepsoo, (Dunedin), Treseder, E. Kenateen, (Inveroargill, Beafl, Turnbull, and Siracox or Evans, (Christcharch), forwards. Later. So far as it has bees possible to ascertain, the insurants on the fire at Clintom are :—.. Phoenix, £350 on tha hotel (half re-inaurej with the North German Company), and £150 on the stable; Equitable, £650 on Lanjge'f stock, of which £425 is re-insured (£2OO io the Australian* Allianoa); Union, £600 oa Laoge's stock, £200 being re-insured in the Liverpool London and Globe and £800 in the; Colonial, also £300 on the hotel, £150 being re-insured with the Liverpool London, and Globe; New Zealand, £250 on the stook and furnitnreof the,hotel; South British, £950 on Lange'a building, half of which is re* insured. • ' • It is stated that a local Company is about to make proposals to the Government to, construct a railway to connect with the Northern line by way of K»ikoura Valley,. t« be worked in oonjonelion with Government railways^ • ~ . v Information has been rewivei (com Iftbj

n/4giiw4Hi«.umt«iaQ repiesemative olft "sjaney - j*Byh(l!oate is'about to start for Now Zealand \ ~*f--;-t6-introducG what is uaid*to baa memfc iaex- ■-' ',"p*pßivo dredging plant, suitable for beaches ,i, and lirere. , It is claimed that nt little cost q( maintenance and tritliug forking expenses it will do more work than any of the drodj.es hitharto introduced. The cost delivered at »ay acca'3?iblo plnoo, including bargo, is said to boaldt £1500 for a machine capable ol lifting not less than 75 tons of solid material perhonr. Tile Sjndioatc, when eatsfled of »ha valu of the ground, will, it is stated, find • .the .nejeaaary plant for an interest in the claim. ■- * " 'AUCKLAND. -l ' So; timber 22. Deteotive Walker ridiftile. flu- idea that Gasparini escaped from in>' sfcaner. He states that the search w s v pst complete The coal bunkers were ncar.y empty, and were .thoroughly searched, ijo also went through the bilgo, and in the spacj beneath the boiler 3 which was nearly red hot. He was of opinion that the rumon of Gasparini's ,e«ape have beep circulated to do him an ■ injury. There is absolutely no foundation for the statement that the Consular attaobees ''at Sydney pointed out anyone to him as reßemblng Oaspaiini. The story is a pure fabrication. ! ; September 24. The bootmakers on strike state that they have not threatened Waurman with violence should he return.to work at Garrett Brothers' faotory. The Rev Father CosteJlo, who has been in charge of the Roman Catholio parish of Parpel',, was presented jesterday with a testirnooial and a parse of sovereigns previous to his.departure from Aucliland. A settler named 11. Eitttr, a German, who has been residing at the Three Kings, is reported as miss.ng. He went out nearly a fortnight ago to l#ok for a horse whioh" had atrayed, and he has not yet returned to his home, bnt it is almost impossible that any person should be lost in that vicinity. 'Whilst excavating a foundation for a house at Coxea' Creek, Mr Edgar discovered an auriferoua.patoh of ground. A quantity of the stuff has been analysed ani found to contain gold.