TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 290, 17 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, Mayls. Thomas Bennington and George Lane, two seamen on the American whaler Tamerlane, at Russell, attempted to swim ashore to desert. Lane sank and was drowned within a hundred yards.of the beach. Bennington was subsequently found sitting on a rock in an exhausted state. . y n ■ The Co-operative Meat Supply Company has brought down the price of meat 20 per cent. , - Wellington, May 15. A Gazette extraordinary issued to-day prorogues Parliament from the 30th May to the 30th June. Port Chalmers, May 16. Arrived—The Portuguese ship Alva, from Hong Kong, with 300 Chinese immigrants. The Vice-regal party and Superintendent of Otago paid a visit to Port Chalmers at noon. THIS DAY’S TELEGRAMS. Nelson,; May 17. The lighthouse keeper at Farewell Spit reports the finding of .the pocket-book of Captain Kadcliffe, of the schooner Melbourne, close to where one of the bodies lay, from which he concludes that- one of the bodies found was that of the captain’s. Pieces of the wreck are still coming ashore, Wellington, May 17. Mr Charles Bonny thorn Borlase, Provincial Solicitor, and several years M.H.K. for the city, died on Saturday evening at his residence. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, May 17. The police made a smart capture on Saturday of one Peter McGregor, charged with indecently assaulting a child nine years’ old. The details were even worse than Johnson’s case. The medical testimony states that a capital offence has been committed. When the facts became known the rest of the men where he worked razed his tent and drove him from the district.