TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1324, 25 August 1886, Page 2

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Alleged Embezzlement. New Plymouth, August 25. Fredrick Mayhew, who is In custody on a charge of embezzlement, and who was remanded pending the receipt of the warrent has consented to a remand to Blenheim without a warrant being transmitted here. He was sent by the steamer Hawea to Blenheim to-day. , A. NT arrow Escape. Wellington, August 25. The steamer Tat, bound from Wellington to Foxton, hid a narrow escape yesterday < f going ashore at the month < f the | Manawatu river. The signals hoisted were to take the bar but when the steamer took the entrance there was not sufficient water and she bumped heavily 1 and carried away her stern post, ruddei

and broke two blades of the propeller. Captain Pope with the aid of a Jury rodder stood to sea and arrived here this morning He estimates his damage at £2OO and attributes the accident to signals buing hoisted that the bar was navigable. W.JB. ShippisslCo. Chbistohuroh, August 25. An extraordinary meeting of the N Z. Shipping Co. was held to-day, and was well attended, to elect a director In the plaoa of Mr J. L. Coster, who at the time had not paid hia calls, and was therefore not qualified. Aa he baa since paid them be was again elected. An amendment by Mr Percy J. Tryer, that it ia undesirable to elect a director at present, received only one vote. Mr Tryer stated that he had a legal opinion that he had in reality been elected at the annual meeting, and Intimated his intention of taking legal proceedings to force the directors to recognise his election, Th« W eather. A heavy fa'l of snow on the port hills, with rain in town, took place eariy this morning. It is now fine, bat blowing strongly from the south-west.