TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7750, 23 October 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

INTERCOLONIAL. [By Elkoteio Telegraph.—Copyright.] [Per Fresh Association,] WRECK OF A KETCH, Sydney, October 23, (Received October 20, 1888, at noon,) Nows has been received that the ketch Eliza has been wrecked at the Coneiga Islands, and it is believed that Captain Arnair and three seamen, named M‘Leod, Stewart, and Johnston, were drowned. DISCOVERY OF TURQUOISES. Melbourne, October 23. Excellent turquoise deposits have been discovered near King’s River, in Gippsland. INTERPROVINCIAL iPer United Press Association] AUCKLAND, October 23, Hay ter and M'Mahon were brought up before the Police Court yesterday in connection with the outrage at the Onehunga waterworks reservoir and remanded. It is alleged that on two previous occasions deliberate attempts were made to destroy the reservoir, in one case the bottom being injured, apparently by the explosion of dynamite. , , . Mr Justice Gillies left to-day to hold the Criminal Sessions at New Plymouth, afterwards going on to the Appeal Court. It is reported that valuable silver deposits have been discovered in the Mokau district. William de Norval, employed at Crawford’s flax-mill, Kahunga, near Raglan, had his arm wrenched off above the elbow by machinery yesterday, and is now in the Auckland Hospital. WELLINGTON, October 23,

The police have received information from Tenui that the body of James Galbraith, who was drowned in the Ohanga River on the 11th, has been recovered. It appears that the deceased took the wrong ford, and his horse got into a quicksand,