INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 231, 4 October 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS AGENOY.) Auckland, Oct. 1. Henry Blakely, engineer of the North Shore ferry steamer, is missing. He is supposed to have been drowned. ■ The Rotorua had a rough passage across. A valuable steeplechase horse belonging to the circus died. The Suez mail per Tanjore left Galle i three days before the contract time, and is expected at the Sound on Oct. 3. Napier, Oct. 1, A fire broke out at the Spit at 1 o'clock this morning, destroying the following premises:—Benker's sailmaker, Redward's store and engine shed. The progress of the fire, was stayed by the Spit and Napier brigades. The insur- ■ ance is not yet ascertained. The fire broke out first at Benker's, but its origin is unknown. The insurances on the Spit fire were— „ Benker's, £650 in theUniou, of which £400 was on the stock and the remainder on the buildings ; Reward, £250 Hawke's Bay Company, £200 in Imperial, and £200* insurance effected, by the owner of the house ; office not known. Greymouth, Oct. 1. Thene is considerable excitement regarding the important discovery of ore at Langdon's about nine miles from Grey- • mouth. Several leases have been applied for. The discovery was made some months ago, but the value was not known till Dr Hector's analysis of the « ore was received, which is as follows :— " July 19. —Ore received per Captain Palmer is antimony sulphate, with 84ozs of gold and 36ozs of silver per ton. Send a larger sample for verification, as it is a very valuable ore if it maintain this quality, and it is worth, say £350 per ton." " August 12.—The last sample antimony ore has 81 ozs of gold per ton, which is chiefly in the quartz part, the m . second sample is quite equal to the first. —J.Hector." Wellington, Oct. 2. In order to make the overland postal service between Christchurch and the West Coast of more general use, the postal authorities have determined to arrange a branch service between Goodfellow's and Kumara. The Greymouth mails and passengers by this means will be conveyed through in the same time as those to and from Hokitika. The Hokitika-Christchurch coach has just arrived, after an eight days' journey. The driver reports that all the rivers are heavily flooded. The coach was upset "* in one river, three horses drowned, and the passengers had a narrow escape. The Chief Justice and Judge's Associate, and other passengers, are still at the Cass, <m and will not reach here before to-morrow night. Some of the passengers' luggage was lost, but the mail arrived safe. Dunedin, Oct. 1 . The question of whether the Education Board is liable to pay rates for schoolmasters' residences, was considered in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday Judgement was reservedX Oct. 2. v The Dunedin Artillery Company, intend going into camp for a week about Nov. 9, and will invite the Christchurch and Invercargill Artillery Companies to „ accompany them.