INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 86, 15 May 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[From the Pbess Agency]. Auckland, May 11

Fears are entertained for the safety of the Sarah Pile, which left Kaipara on April 2, for Wanganui. There are no tidings here of her arrival. The inquest on the exhumed remains of Mrs Scott, who died at Onehunga in childbirth, was concluded yesterday. The verdict returned was "died from rupture of the uterus, not from malpractice." The evidence regarding the analysis showed that 1000 th part of a grain of arsenic was found on the cloth laid under the chin of the corpse, and placed with it in the coffin. The theory set up by the Coroner was, that arsenic might have existed in the bottle out of which the ginger beer was given to the patient. Thomas Keallie was'killed at Papaknra, by the falling of the limb of a txee. May 12. ■ The sheriff has received a telegram, stating that Government does not propose to interfere with the sentence of death passed on Tepatui. The sentence will probably be carried out some day next week.

Grahamstown, May 12,

The tidal wave was felt up the Thames river yesterday. The rise was about three feet. At 4 o'clock yesterday it came im suddenly, but not yery high, returning as quickly. It rose again about seven this morning.

Wellington, May 12.

Captain Dalton,of the schooner Ruby, states thas as he came up from Kaikoura yesterday the sea was perfectly smooth in Cook Strait, but every fifteen or twenty minutes an enormous blind vfave came up, " as tng , as a dozen waves rolled into one," but without any " face" -or break. These gigantic " swells" came •up from about S.S.E. The s.s. Tui while at Kaikoura, experienced the force of the wave and carried away all three of her warps. In the Supreme Court this morning the Chief Justice delivered judgment in the case of Hammon v. Public Trustee, in. which one creditor endeavoured to recover from a life insurance policy which Eobert Sparke Rowe, a bankrupt, had effected with the Victoria Life Assurance Company prior to his decease. Rowe left a widow and five children, end the

point involved was whether a policy of insurance is protected to the family from the creditors on the death of the assured. The Court decided that it was, and judgment with costs was given in favour of defendant. Nelson, May 12. < Captain Lloyd reports that yesterday, at 1 p.m., when the s.s., Wellington was about three miles to the West of Jackson's Head, he encountered a very heavy tidal wave from the Westward. The stem of the steamer dipped very nearly under the water, and the vessel was drawn back half-a-mile. Westport, May 12. • There was a tidal wave here yesterday at 2.30 p.m. and again at 6, when it rose six feet in three minutes. No damage was done, except washing away some loose material at the wharfage works. A slight commotion still continues.

Dunedin, May 12,

A smart shock of earthquake is reported to have occurred at the Maori Kaik yesterday forenoon. It seemed to travel east to west, and was of very short duration.

King Philip has been sold to Mr O'Kain of Mosgiel, for £300.

Two cases of sticking-up in Dunedin, by night, have been reported to the police within the past week. Mr. Vincent Pyke has taken the initiative towards holding a Conference of Chairmen of County Councils in Dunedin, for the purpose of considering in what respect the Counties Act can be amended.

An accident occurred on Henderson and Go's contract on the Outram and Mosgiel railway line on Saturday evening. A number of trucks were being driven by an engine when the buffers fouled, the trucks were upset and a man named Clark killed, while five others were seriously hurt. WELLINGTON. Since eight o'clock this morning a. tidal wave has been noticed, the rise and fall being about four feet, the action and reaction occupying about fifteen minutes. It is still going on, decreasing. At the reclamation works, where the water is confined by the uncompleted breastwork, the tide rushed in and out with great force, resembling the current at French Pass.

The rise and fall slackened at mid-duy, increased again in the afternoon, and ceased altogether abovt seven. AUCKLAND. Tidal wave here this morniag rose to nine inches. Tauranga. May 11. About eight this morning there was a tidal disturbance, the water rising three feet Mgher than is usual at spring tides. There were sudden falls at short intervals throughout the day. Dunedin, May, 11, A tidal wave, varying in its rise and fall from eighteen inches to five feet has been experienced here. New South Wales, May 11. The tide fell suddenly over two feetj and then returned to its original level. It also fell twenty iuches in five minutes at Newcastle.