TELEGRAMS

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1967, 17 January 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[rBOM OWK OtTB COEEESPOKDENT3.] LYELL. January 13. Alpine return for the week's (five days) crushing—l6o tons stone giving 181 ozs. amalgam, from plates. NELSON. January 14. A seven-roomed house in Wellington street, occupied by Mr Munday, was burnt yesterday. Insurance on house and furniture reach £l5O. Nothing saved. HAVELOCK. January 13. Charles O'Donnell, working on railway at Totara Hill, was run over by a truck and killed. LYTTELTON. January 13. The Circe, brigantine, from Foo Chow, has arrived. She reports a fatal accident on January 3rd. During a gale a heavy sea broke on deck carrying away starboard quarter-house and staving in the bulworks. The man at the wheel was knocked down insensible, and the boatswain, named Nicholas, was crushed under the debris of the deck-house and was found quite dead. CHRISTCHURCH. January 13. An experiment in shipment of potatoes for England and India is being made. Mr Morgan has devised a plan for destroying the germinating while preserving nutritive and palatable qualities of the tubers. TIMARU. January 14. Beetham, Resident Magistrate, was banquetted last night by the bench and bar. Much regret is expressed at his removal to Christchurch. January 16. The ship City of Cashmere, owing to the pin in the shackle of anchor coming out, drifted ashore on Saturday and now lies five miles from Timaru nearly a total wreck. Her crrgo is being got out uninjured. DUNEDIN. January 14. The English cricketers made 156 in one innings yesterday, and the men, commencing at 5 in the afternoon, scored 29 in the half hour preceding the drawing ot the wickets. The play throughout the day was indifferent, the weather cold and windy, and spectators few. January 13. The English cricketers commenced play yesterday against a woefully weak team of Otagoians. The visitors played without much life. The pitch was bumpy ; the fielding miserable, and the spectators, about 1500, found but little amusement. The scores for the day were Otago 84, English Eleven for one -vicket, scored 17. Ulyett caught, by Spring and bowled by Frith, 7. Barlow, not out, 5. Selby, not out, 3 Byes 2. January 16. The English cricketers beat the Otago team in one innings. The visitors play at Christchurch to-day. WELLINGTON. January 13 Fitzgerald's election for Hokitika appears in yesterday's Gazette. The Wellington Guards, the exclusive and swell volunteer regiment, will probably disband. The captain and lieutenants have resigned, and the corp is generally disorganised. '1 he cause is too utterly utter snobbishness. Judges Johnston and Williams will preside at trials of petitions against elections of Sutton for Gladstone, All- - for Lyttelton, and Pilliet for Stanmore. January 14. Thompson, of the firm of Thompson and Shannon, was entertained at a banquet last night, previous to bis departure for England. Sir Wm. Fitzberbert was in the chair. The Hinemoa goes south to-morrow with the supplementary mails. The sentence of the Court yesterday on the Hon. Pharazyn, for an offence under the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, was one hour's imprisonment, commencing at the opening of the session. This, though virtually nominal, will entail loss .of vote fcr three years and striking name off the Commission of the Peace. January 16. Rumors are afloat that Sisely, Manager of the Tramway Company, is a de- \ faulter in his accounts. MrsHampson, the Evaugelist, leaves for Nelson this day. The ship Orari left for Loudon yesterday.

NEW PLYMOUTH. January 14. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars' Secretary'B report shows an increase of 1) lodges and also 211 members. It

was resolved to establish u Senior Juvenile Templar. AUCKLAND. January 14. Sheehan was married yesterday to Miss Young of Mahurangi. January 13. Knox, Director of the Sydney Sugar Refinery Company, has purchased a block of land at Kauri Point as a site for a sugar refinery. The land will cost £SOOO, and he calculates the plant and buildings will absorb £200,000 more.