BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(FROM GREVILLE’s TELEGRAM COMPANY, REUTER’S AGENCY.) Wellington, November 13. The ketch Alert grounded in Maori Bay on Saturday. The crew are safe. Thames, November 11. John Battey, a stockrider, formerly of Napier, was drowned on the Prince of Wales birthday while endeavoring to save a boy named Joseph Quinn, who was also drowned. A man named Simon was killed while blasting a rock, and the blast injured a man named Scholefield, who was working in the Inverness cla’m. The Volunteer review was a great success. The claims are improving. The yield from the Tokatea claim, Coromandel, was 1000 ounces for the month ; Caledonian, 6242 ounces of melted gold for the month ; Moanatiri, 373 ounces for the fortnight; Royal Oak, 304 ounces; Golden Crown, 126 ounces. Quotations Caledonian, LI 15; Thames, L 22 ; Albion, L 7 ; Centra Italy, L2 10s. Thomas Hogan, a gum-digger, has been lost in the bush. Or Pollen and Mr Maohay had an interview with the native?, which is considered highly satisfactory. It is rumored that the telegraph line to Ohinemuri is to be immediately constructed.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2727, 13 November 1871, Page 3
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