WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1057, 26 November 1903, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

A LEAKING SHIP,

l(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night,

The master of the steamer Monovvvai, which arrived to-day from Sydney, reports that on Sunday morning, when 240 miles east of Sydney he spoke the ship Tliornliebank, of Glasgow, 144 days out from Pliiladelphia for Wellington* The vessel signalled that she had sprung a leak, and that she was making for Sydney The captain asked to he reported to the Wellington agents. The Thornliebank lias 60,000 eases kerosene and 10,000 cases benzine aboard. She is a steel ship of 2005 tons. Her arrival at Sydney has not yet been reported.

A RECORD CABLE. The Premier has received the following cablegram from the AgentGeneral .—The Pacific Cable reported the result of the match between Warner’s team and the New South Wales’ eleven in eleven minutes. This is a record cables

GOVERNMENT BORROWING. The Colonial Treasury is inviting tenders for £500,000 worth of New -Zealand 4 per cent- debentures, issued at par principal. They will he repaid at par not earlier Jhan five years nor later than twenty years, the Government reserving to itself the right of redemption at certain periods. DISCHARGED. At the Supreme Court, Peter Trainor and Sarah Falloon, charged with robbery with violeuce from a man in whose company they, had 'been drinking, were discharged. THE EAREE CASE.

Justice Cooper to-day refused to mane an order against .the Rev. W. Earee, of Masterton, for security of payment during his absence from the colony of the amount of alimony recently awarded Mrs Earee.