INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 150, 24 December 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

' _ ,"" TiMABu, Dec. 23. At 10 o'clock last night heavy seas were rolling, and the Kate M'Gregor parted one anchor. Strict watch was kept by the Rocket Brigade all night, but she held to her anchorage well. The brig Craig Ellachie, which came ashore yesterday morning, has lost part of her rudder and keel. Christchurch, Dec. 24, 3.30 p.m. Mr C. C.Bowen's address to his constituents has been postponed till Friday. Steps are about to be taken to form a company for laying tramways through the city. ' " ' Mr G. L. Mellish, the Resident Magistrate, has started a subscription for giving the inmates of the Industrial School and Orphanage a Christmas treat. £150 has been collected, besides a large quantity of toys, &c . • . • ' 4.30 p.m. At Trust meeting, to-day, Mr Hardy Johnson was appointed as engineer. Meeting adjourned to January 8. Taupo, Dec. 22.

Connolly, landscape painter, returned here yestsrday. He has made the first ascent of Tongariro, and climbed even under the cone of Ngaraoe, where he has built a cairn of stones on the lip of the outer crater, which is of.vast extent. The crater is not a single one as has hitherto been believed, »but has a double crater, the inner one being much the smaller. The valley between is covered with white sand, granite boulders, and many colored rocks. Connolly, descendedinto this valley,'where not even a lichen was to be seen. Volumes of steam emerged from the inner crater, whose lip appeared in the distance to be covered with a coating of molten sulphur. Slight tremors of the ground were felt occasionally, and no sound disturbed the weirdlike solitude of the smouldering volcano. The sketches taken by Mr Connolly of these strange Scenes fell into the hands of the natives, who robbed him of his horses and-other ptoperty. , ■; ■ . :.. y , ,; ■';: j