Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1673, 26 July 1892, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[Rv Electric Telegraph,]

INTERPROVINCIAL

[FROM ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Wellington, July 25. A slip on the Mauawatu line, near Wadestown, has bh eked the traffic, but it was all mud, and no rock, and was nearly all cleared by noon. Katikati, July 25. At 9 a.m. on Saturday the Mount Stewart Fishing Co.'s boat attempted to cross the Katikati bar, when on the bar the boat was seen by Faulkner, a haltcaste, to broach to, and the seas swamped her The crew consisted of George Stewart, son of Vesey Stewart (the founder of the settlement), Frank Anderson, eon of T. Anderson (a respected settler), and Robert Irwin, a fisherman. They took to the rigging, and apparently lashed themselves to the mast. Several seas covered them, and they remained in that position about seven minutes, when all suddenly disappeared. Search parties have been out since, but no trace has been found of the wreck or the crew. A hat, supposed to belong to Anderson, was found on the beach near the scene. All of the drowned men were married. Sydney, Ju|y 25. H.M.S. Royalist has established a protectorate over the Gilbert group. Lokdon, July 24. The Warriraoo, Huddart Parker's new steamer, has had a successful trial, in which she averaged seventeen knots an hoar. . Shortland. the bicyclist, has succeeded in riding 412 miles in twenty-four hours. A letter signed" Australian Colonist," attributed, to either Judge Boncaut, of South Australia, or Professor Sterling, appeared in the Times, which declares that if the English are so weak kneed as to let Ireland go, the Colonies will no adhere to their allegiance. If the English desert Imperialism, and become dreamers, doctrinarians and faddists, the sooner the Colonies separate the better United Ireland states that the Parneliite group refuses to agree to Mr Labouchere's programme, and insists on the immediate introduction of Home Rule.