Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7695, 18 March 1887, Page 2

Telegraphic.

« (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.), Auckland, Thursday. Telegrams .received, by the owners of, tlie schooner Marion state that the vessel capsized and sank in Haveiock channel, Cook's Strait, on Monday last. Captain Harsen and crew got away safely, aud set about operations to flo.at the vessel, and yesterday afternoon he wired that tlie vessel v. as pumped oiit. No damage was done, and she Avould sail for Lyttel-, ton witli timber. ' . St. Patrick's Day was observed Avith spirit. An excursion train left Auckland for the Waikato with a number of excursionists to Otorohanga to view the section opened of the North Island trunk railway. The dogs of Fryer's circus which were not permitted to be landed owing to tho quarantine laws Avere shipped by the Wairarapa to-day for Melbourne. James Simpson has disappeared from Cambridge suddenly. Search parties have, been out, but not the slightest trace of him lias been found. He had the key of the safe of Messrs Lewis and Simpson's store when lie left. The safe has since been opened, aud everything has been found straight. His life is insured in the Australian' Mutual Provident for £500 and in the Mutual of, Victoria for £300. He was very eccentric. The two-year-old colt Niagara was purchased to-day on behalf of tlie Hon. Mr Pearson, of Victoria, for 1750 guineas. Wanganui, Thursday. The man Martin, who had been missing several days turnpd up at tlie Suburban Hotel last nidit. He is being looked after now, and will be shipped to VVellington. A man named John Scott, a baker bytrade, Avas found dead iv bed this morning. He was seen alive at 5 a.m., Avhen lie had to be assisted to bed. An hour after he was found dead in bed. Wellington, Thursday. A paragraph, purporting to be extracted from a Sydney paper, has been going the rounds, giving a description of a .dim in Sydney whither kidnapped persons are conveyed and imprisoned. The authoi ; mentions, amongst other victims, a mau 1 from New Zealand, kept there at the i instance of a business man, the reason being his efforts to promote temperance, 1 Mr A. L. Levy, whose mysterious dis- _ appearance, andstill more mysterious exf pianation, have been much canvassed, left iv the Wakatipu for Sydney on Saturdaj ' to obtain certain evidence for the' prosecu I tion of legal action he contemplates. . He , had not seen this paragraph, but his t relatives consider it a corroboration of his _ story, and say he was only let out of the ) den because the instalments Avere not regularly paid. Levy said he had been kepi j in a place of the sort described. • At a meeting of tlie AVoollen Company last week Mr Dransfield, director, accused Mr Valentine, a shareholder, of .stating J that the former had purchased wool on ■ commission, Mr Dransfield denying be had done so. It is understood that legalproceedings will arise out of the matter. An information has been laid against i Prank M. Wilmott, manager of the Opera ' House, charging him with making a false j declaration in a claim for enrolment to tht i effect that he had resided Avithiri the Tc ' Aro electoral district foi* the previous ter months. s Spurious sovereigns are in circulation. ' A printed document lias been circulatei J among the civil servants relative to pro l motions and salaries. The general eftec ' is to cut down salaries on promotion s( \ as to gradually lower the gross amoun j .paid in that Avay, and to indicate thai in fnture £(300 a year will.be the maximun i salary for the heads of departments. " . Only three events of the regatta coulc bo got off to-day oh accountof the wind i The Star Club, Wellington, won then ' all, including the Champion Fours. Tin ' Wakatu crew, about whose status so_muel * ill-feeling lias arisen lately; rowed withou* 5 permission and came in behind the Stai . crew. ■ ' j The Lyttelton case, was continued today. Boberb Storm, the pilot in charge of tho ship, Avas under examination, and \ described the arrangements made foi taking the Lyttelton to sea. The usual precautions were taken and there was nothing exceptionally dangerous iv the weather * that- morning. Witness had . towed larger. vessels out of Timaru, bu I had never taken one the same course as ; the Lyttelton. The vessel' bumped' in •22ft of Avater, but witness thought" slu would not bave dono so unless there wa. some obstruction on tbe bottom. Had the vessel been allowed to drift she would have goue ashore, and her anchors were let go to prevent this, but witness did not observe that she had way on. He thought the accident would have been averted if the captain of the Grafton had observed witness's directions. Tlie Lyttelton was not steering well after leaving the wreck buoy. Several wrecks had occurred in Tiniaru harbor and anchors had been lost in this roadstead, but Avitness could not say if any were lost near where the i Lyttelton foundered.— Lawrence Lennie, diver, gave evidence as to iiis examination of the Lyttelton's bottom and finding an ; anchor through it near the bow ou tbe * port side. There was also a break on the ! same side of the vessel, but further aft. Witness had asked tlie agent of the vessel £ 150 for the information concerning the anchor being through the ship's bottom, but the offer was refused. The witness detailed the condition of the vessel's bottom when examined by him. The Court was then adjourned till 10 o'clock to-morrow. Nklson, Thursday. A jubilee village festival Avas opened this afternoon in the grounds of Mi Martin Lightbaiid and of Mr Lightband, sen., wlio for 45 years lias resided thereon. Tlio receipts are to go to tho Cathedral Church funds. There are a number of * shows, with a Maypole dance, &c, whilst at night the grounds are illuminated by electric light and innumerable incandescent lamps, the effect being excellent. Mr Edgar Ashcroft, of Wellington, who undertook the lighting, has been very successful, and so far the festival has been largely attended. CiiiUSTCHUROH, Thursday. To-day Mr lieetham, R.M., dismissed an information against the Lyttelton Harbor Board and their secretary fot refusing to allow their accounts to be audited by the accountant appointed by the Audit'Oflice. He considered that the penal clause 222 of the Harbors Act, 187S, would not apply to an offence under sections 31 and 32 of tho Public Revenues Act, under which the informations had been laid. The interprovincial doc show nndor the auspices of the Now Zealand Keunel Club was opened to-day. There woro - 224 entries. The average quality was fairly good. To-day (George Gihbs, tish hawker, was lined £5 for selling flounders and ba_racouta under the legal sizo. Timaru, Thursday. St. Patrick's Day passed off pleasantly. The weather waa fine. An excursion to Wuihao Avas Avell patronised. Oamaru, Thursday. The hearing of the charge against Agnes Sargison of having murdered her in.ant child Avas concluded to-day. It. will be remembered that the remains of a child were found buried in the yard behind tbe house that the prisoner had lived in. The prisoner had removed from the house, telling the neighbors that Mrs Scott, of Taeri, had called and taken the child away. The evidence disclosed the fact that no such person lived at tho place mentioned. The remains found were much mutilated, and owing to their advanced state of decomposition very little evidence could be. gleaned from the post mortem examination. Tlio doctors could not agree a . lo the cause of death, but the doctor who attended tho child four or five days beforo its disappearance stated in bis evidence that it was dying when lio saw it, The defence, set up was that tho child died a natural death, and that the mother had bnried.it in the yard, the mutilation being caused by the spade in the burial. A verdict of not guilty was returned. The agricultural statistics for the I county show that the yield of wheat this year is estimated at 743,103 bushels; of oalx, 098,003 bushels ; of barley, 20,532 bushels; and of potatoes, 19,604 tons. With tho exception of barley all these yields are nearly twice as large as last year. Dunedin, Thursday. The Kaitangala Railway Compauy have declared a 10 per cent, dividend. Mcs-is.Dulgcty and Co. advise by cable

that the Westland is not mncb damaged. • • .' '■ Her cargo Avas landod in good order. . Mr James Grog, nn old Pnmncial Government servant, died suddenly yesterday , of heart disease. Ho had just left tUc-'-lospita..- - , - ' At the .annual nieeting to-day of the" New Zealand Drug. Company, Mr B. Sievewright presiding, the report' recommending a dividend of 7 percent, was adopted. . The Chairman stated that the directors had considered the question of establishing bonrds of- advice or local boards at the , branches, and had come to the conclusion . , tbat it could not be carried out with advantage. Messrs A. Felton. and W; • _ Elder were elected directors,' and the auditors were also re-elected. From a return of ratable property under the Charitable Aid Board it appears that there is a decrease in the capital value in , the county district of Otago of £1427 com- : pared with , the previous year. ,In the borough there is an increase of £23,460. 1 For some two yeare the secretary of the [ Education Board has received at irregular intervals anonymous letters enclosing ' £1, containing no directions as to what avus to be done Avith it. Another £1 Avas received to-day, making the amount received in this manner £9. Inveroaiioim,, Thursday. At the amateur athletic sports to-day A. C. Willmot, of Christchurch, won. the mile bicycle race easily, conceding 100 - . * • yards to his opponent. The 25-mile bicycle race for the championship of New Zealand / V - Avas practically a contest between Willmot # ■ ' and Kerr, of Dunedin, one of the local mon losing his pedal early in the. race and the other being about a mile behind ... at the finish. Up to tbe twentieth milo' , Kerr looked like winning, bnt thereafter*. Willmot dreAV away and Avon by. about : 220 yard.. Time, 1 honr 36 minutes IS :*• I-Sth seconds. A somewhat brisk breeze.. . .was blowing, but the. track Avas in fan. order. ■-■- - • .-■.-..-• -y y> ..