INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 114, 21 August 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.)

Auckland, August 17. The yacht Secret has been sold for £550 to a Sydney gentleman.

Wellington, August 17

A Government Gazette, issued to-day, notifies the following appointments for Canterbury district ; —R. W. C. Doyly, District Land Registrar ; Edward Denham, Assistant Land Registrar aud Registrar of Deeds ; Alfred Pin well, Deputy Registrar of Deeds. A despatch from the Sectretary of State encloses instructions to pilots and the Colony in regard to the war betweeu Russia and Turkey as follows:—" British pilots are not to pilot ships of war for either belligerent, except in British water within three miles of the shore, or to do more than pilot such ships into or out of British ports or roadsteads when they are not at the time engaged in any hostile operations. But ships of war in distress may always be piloted out of imminent or immediate danger, other than danger of immediate capture. Nelson", August 17. It is reported from Farewell Spit that i a quantity of wreckage is lying tliere apparently torn from the bow of some vessel. There are pieces of rails 20ft x 12 inches x 4 inches of a bright hard wood like mahogany or teak with planking attached, on which are cut letters A N T 0 F A G A S T A ; also, female figure-head five feet high, painted white with a wreath of roses ronnd the head. At the Queen Bee enquiry to-day, Captain Davis attributes the wreck to an error in the compasses, which never worked well all the voyage, the observations sometimes showing them to be two and a-half points out. Dunedin, August 17. To-day a man fell from Burt's building, a height of 35 feet. He started head down, but three rows of scaffolding intervened, and he was turned in various directions, and finally landed on his feet without much injury. He was able to walk home. He struck a thick board in his fall and broke it in two. Mr John Guthrie, of the lightning firm, was injured to-day by the falling of some iron which was being discharged from a lighter. Something on the steam crane gave way, and the iron jammed his legs, and threw his head against a cask, cutting him severely. _ Mr, Clayton, the Colonial Architect, will have to have a foot amputated. He is suffering from abscess in the ankle.