TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1381, 15 November 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[m nm ASSOCIATION. ] Fatal Accident. m , Auckland, To-day. Powell, a boardinghouse-keeper, with two children, aged 6 and 8 years, and a min named Danielle were coming to town from Lucas Creek this morning in an open boat, ahd ; when off Kauri Point a squall struck the boat and she capsized. Powell seizing an oar managed to swim ashore, bnw Daniells . and the children were drowned. Pound Drowned. The dead body of a man about 40 years of age aas found under the Queen street wharf to-day, haring apparently been a fortnight in the water. It has not been "~ g " ta4 ■A.Amrt. H. Moody, draper’s assistant, was arrested for stealing L4O worth of drapery from tiie Melbourne Clothing Company and Coombs’ drapery, where he had been employed. Arrival of the San Francisco Mail. The mail steamer City of Sydney is signalled, and will arrive at four o’clock. A Wreck. Wanganui, To-day. A private telegram received here says that the Bannockburn, bound from Wanganui to. Normanton with timber, and wrecked on the nerth .coast of Queensland, haa been abandoned. P. and <J. Bartholomew ware the charterers, and the cargo, Valued at LI,OOO, is partially insured. . Xke Hortherß Trunk Bailway. , , Wellington, To-day. The,Government ictend to push on; the ueqjpauy surveys .in connection with the Nqtfli lelsnd Main Trank railway as qujokiyas possible. Operations will be comfQenced at both ends, and some of the aam&orSengagedior the Northern seclion lease for . Anckland fay the Tara were tonjay. ft is believed that the first contact will he out in twp months, and work wi|l.#ommence simultaneously at Mar ton and. TeAWamotu. . tie Bishop of Wellington. Bishop Hadfield returned from a visit towaOld Country to-day. The Mails. The postal authorities draw the attention of paraona having correspondents in Great Britain to the importance of directingtbem not to send correspondence by way of Brindisi or Suez, as extra postage will have to be collected' on the same on arrival In New Zealand. ' Letters should he inscribed “via San .Francisco” or “ direct mail steamer.” Arrival of the Florida. Dunedin, To-day. The Florida arrived at London on the 13th.' Her meat is in good order.