INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 55, 26 January 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

» [From the Press Agency]. , Auckland, January 19. A baker's cart capsized, fracturing the skull of the driver, Thos. Shapley, and breaking his leg, the bone protruding through the flesh. ■ He is not expected to live. •.:.■.'• January 23. The brigantine Flora, from Lyttelton had a narrow escape from becoming a total wrech. In entering Kaipara she struck on the Mary Catherine bank, and

her anchor and thirty fathoms of chain. She remained thua for four hours, On the tide rising she bumped over and was beached. She has sustained considerable damage: The captain came to Auckland to consiilt the insurance companies. _ A half-caeto woman at Kaihu has given birth to five children ; four of them are living. Sharpley, who was injured yesterday by the upsetting of a baker's cart, died last evening. At the sheep fair to-day, 16,000 cheep were penned. At a meeting of the Harbor Board, the question of deepening the dock was postponed. The Union Sash and Door Company have declared a dividend of 20 per cent on the paid-up capital. The total licenses for arms and ammunition used in Auckland district during the year 1876 were 8087. Grahamstown, January 24. The Ohinemuri Natives are building a pah near Mackaytown, to carry out the blockade of the country at Te Aroha. There was quite a warlike display at Paroa yesterday. Wellington, January 22. A fine day for the regatta, particularly for the sailing races, but a little too rough for rowing. The principal events were — First Class Yacht race, 20 miles; first prize, £25 and a Cup. Won by the Secret (Auckland) easily. The Minnehaha (Wellington) was second, and the others nowhere. The Coasters' race, 20 miles; first prize, £25 and a Cup, was won by the Transit (Auckland) ; the Clio (Wellington) second ; the Cynthia (Wellington) third. The Whaleboat race, of 3 miles, was a very exciting race. There were three entries. The betting was 3 and 4 against the field on the Danger (rowed by the Timaru crew, the Bradleys). The Danger took the lead, and kept it nearly the whole way, but on rounding the last turn the Black Diamond, rowed by coalheavers, made a rush up, and apparently there was a foul. The Black Diamond was then seen taking the lead, and the danger rowing one oar short. A protest was entered, but the matter is not settled yet. All three came in within a length of each other. For the four-oar inrigged race only two came to the scratch, the Timaru crew in a local boat, the Maud, and Dolly Varden crew in the Transit. The Dolly's crew being heavier than the other were at a disadvantage, the water being rough, and after going the first mile had to give in, being nearly swamped, and only one man in the boat could swim. A number of races were postponed, which will be rowed to-morrow. In the second class yacht race a boat belonging to the Telegraph steamer Agnes capsized just off Soames Island. A pleasure boat, Avith ladies aboard, picked up three of the men. The Hinemoa saw the accident, turned round immediately, and got the boat in tow. One of the three men died .on board the eteamer five minutes after the crew were on board. Just after this another boat went down, and full steam was put on at once and a boat lowered, amid corks, oars, &c. Three men were saved and two "drotvned. The last one capsized was the boat of the ship Avalanche. Both boats went down like a etone. January 23. ■: At the inquest to-day upon the body of one of the four men drowned yesterday, the jury added a rider to the effect that in all sailing boat races, everyone in the boat should be compelled to wear a life-belt. January 24. The foar-oar outrigged. race, and the other postponed rowing races, did not come off as expected this afternoon, owing to a breeze and rough water. Nelson, January 23. The Waimea County Council has decided not to bring the whole of the County Act into force. Pobt Chalmers, Januarry 22. Arrived—The shipMarlborough, eightyfour days' out from Glasgow, with 269 immigrants, 15 cabin passengers, and 1200 tons cargo. All well on board. Three deaths (infants) occurred during the voyage. The Taupq/and Ringarooma, from Lyttelton. / / Greymouth, January 24. THEMENGLISH CRICKETERS. A from the Cricket Club waited on the All-England Eleven, asking them to land and fulfil their engagement, but they declined, on account of their not being able to get a boat so as to fulfil their engagements elsewhere.' They laid all the blame on their agent, Bennett. . Great indignation is felt at the manner in which Greymouth has been treated. Dunedin, January 22. The Tokomairiro and Lawrence railway was opened to-day as far as Waitahuna. There was no demonstration, it being postponed till the line is completed to Lawrence. A newspaper runner has been summoned this afternoon for selling copies of the Daily Times and Star within the precincts of the Dunedin railway station. The case is brought for the purpose of testing Messrs. Reed and Fenwick's right to exclude all but their own papers by virtue of their contract recently entered into with the Government, giving them the privilege among other things to sell literature on the platform of the Dunedin railway station. RiVERTON', Januarry 22. A man named Roland McDonald, a settler at the Limestone Plains, was killed on Saturday night through his dray having passed over him while coming off at his own gate. The deceased has only been a few months married, and leaves a young widow. Blenheim, January 24. Every arrangement was made yesterday for the execution of Woodgate this morning. A man named Chandler was engaged as hangman, but was driven out of Picton. The condemned man received the sacrament yesterday, Archdeacon Butt and the Rev. Mr. Ronaldson being present. He still maintained his innocence. The sheriff and gaoler refused to execute the sentence, and as they failed to find any one else, the man remains unhung. It is not known when or how the sentence will be carried oujt. The telegraph was employed until midnight in" attempting to obtain a hangihan from Wellington, without success.