YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 901, 15 May 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, pee press agency.]

Iquique, S.A., Destroyed by Earthquake.

Attitude of the House of Commons. Bombay*, April 13. Iquique, on the west coast of South Ajncrica, has been destroyed by earthquake.

The debate on Gladstone's resolutions continues. The majority of the Conservatives go with the Whigs for neutrality. The Liberals are divided, some favoring the dismemberment of Turkey. Others disagree with Gladstone.

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, May 14. The influx of Chinese into the Northern Queensland Groldflelds is still increasing. Arrived —Rotorua. Sailed—Hero. INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Wreck on the Otago Coast. Auriferous Quartz at Kawau Auckland, May 14. A meteor-like globe of fire passed over the city this morning. Some quartz specimens, sent by Sir George Grey, from Kawau, for analysis, yielded at the rate of about 6dwt. per ton. The Kahuna, from Wellington to Kaipara, put into Raglan dismasted. She had a very narrow escape. The War nuthoritatively denies the rumor of Sir Ceorge Clrey's intended retirement. Wellington, May 14. The following are the different insurances effected on Caselberg's store and stock burned at Masterton yesterday : —Liverpool, London, and Globe, £1500; Northern, £1000; New Zealand, £IOOO ; South British, £1000; Standard, £1000; 'Batavia, £500; Norwich Union, £500; Victoria, £1000; National, £ISOO, the third of which has been reinsured. The stoi-e was considered the finest in any country town in the colony. The origin of the five is still -unknown. A civil case of some importance to shipmasters decided to-day in Resident Magistrate's Court,; Francois Je sued Krull (agent for an Australian firm) for £557, balance due on the freight of a cargo of timber, and sixteen days' demurrage. The point of defence was that the agreement as per charter specified the rale of measurement, according to which a reduction of 10 per cent, in each hundred cubic feel is claimed. The plaintiff alleged he was unaware there -was any such stipulation in the charter party, and consequently claimed full and ordinary freight. The Magistrate gave judgment for £305. It is understood that Tngwcrsen, deputy keeper of the Mount View Lunatic Asylum, lias levanted, leaving a large number of creditors. Dr. Skae has taken charge of the Asylum in the meantime. Ingwersen went away to Canterbury on leave of absence. Bluff, May 14. The barque William Clifford is on shore one mile from Toi Toi. All hands were saved. National Insurance Company. Stranding of the Lochiel. The Accident on the Mosgiel Railway Works. (From a correspondent of the Press.') Dunedin, May 14. The following are the full particulars of the Mosgiel accident. Early on Saturday afternoon the Government ballast engine, harnessed to about a. dozen trucks, were loaded witli material for ballasting the line, and despatched from the quarry with about twenty men, who were to unload and spread the contents of the wagons. After proceeding four miles the engine, which is said by some to be unsteady inconsequence of the after part projecting too far behind the wheels, ran off the rails and plunged down a small embankment about

a foot, in height, across which it had been travelling, dragging with it the trucks immediately behind. A most painful scene immediately ensued. Two or three of the waggons tumbled pell-mell over each other, and those of the men who were not fortunate enough to escape by jumping from them, were either crushed under the wheels or so entangled in the debris as to be severely injured. Most of the workmen had bee!) travelling on the top of the trucks, but some half-dozen had inadvisedly preferred to rifle on the engine, which is /Kled with a handrail and footboard, and these were the greatest sufferers. One of them was killed outright. Another was so terribly mutilated that his left leg had to be amputated as soon as medical assistance was procured ; while a third escaped death only by a miracle, and bad to be dug out of the ground. The names of the injured are Alexander Clarke, aged 27, a native of Ireland, married, killed ; William Jones, compound fracture of left leg; David Henderson, left foot almost severed at the ankle, left leg subsequently amputated below the knee ; John Fleming, compound fracture of right leg; John Hoscrof t, compound fracture of right leg, dislocation of left hip, and several toes smashed ; Frederick Dodd, dislocation of right shoulder, and considerably bruised; Charles Faulkner, right leg broken. At a late hour this afternoon they were all doing as well as could be expected considering the serious nature of the injuries. The principal facts which came out at the inquest were that the contractors' instructions were that no men should ride on the engine, which was generally considered unsafe on account of its jumping proclivities. The Government railway inspector considered the engine highly dangerous. It should never have been allowed to run without trailing wheels. Running at three miles an hour it had gone off the rails on one occasion.

The official report re the grounding of the Lochiel is as follows:—Between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday evening Pilot Kelly saw a schooner running in, but as she was not signalling for a pilot lie concluded she was an exempt vessel, and took no further notice of the matter until the following morning, when her dangerous position was discovered. The master was acquainted with the port, and ran in with the view of coming to off the pilot station, but on rounding, the anchor was not let go for some time after the order had been given, and before the precarious position of the vessel could be ascertained she took the ground aft, and was hardened up by the flood tide. About high wate rehiring the night tide she floated off, but not having the anchor sufficiently far out, she drifted on a second time. There is not the least blame to be attached to the pilot. No damage was done to the ship. One of the crew of the Gazelle says that in the cave in which the General Grant was discovered her figurehead and dry pieces of wreckage were found. What is known of the wreck was seen in eight fathoms, with a clear bottom. Captain Giles is confident of ultimate success.

Part of the National Insurance meeting was very stormy. At the outset, Mr Keeves complained of insufficiency of information on (lie balance sheet, saying shareholders at a distance could not satisfy themselves. MiDriver retired from candidature for the directorship, because he thought he had 5000 votes in his favor. Other three candidates by joining together and giving block votes got 8000 each. This was denied by Oliver, another candidate, and the chairman, Walter, described it as a rotqen'y blackguard state of things. Davy wanted to retire from candidature as auditor for the same reason, but was refused. On going to the poll he was at the bottom. The following vessels are reported as having arrived at London :—Nicol Fleming, seventyeight days from the Bluff : Dunedin, seventysix days' from Port Chalmers. Supposed Levanting of an Asylum Officer. Wellington, May 1-I<. The livening Post of to-night has the following paragraph relating to the defaulting keeper of the Lunatic Asylum :—-" Ingwersen, the well-known deputy-superintendent of Mount View Asylum, applied a little time ago for a week's leave of absence to proceed to Canterbury on ' urgent private affairs.' This was granted, and he departed taking with him a trap and horse which were his own property. He did not return at the close of his period of leave, but applied for an extension, a, request which, we believe, was granted. When the time had again expired, and Mr Ingwersen still failed to return, enquiries were made, and it was discovered that he had sold his horse and trap and taken his passage; direct from Lyttelton in a vessel bound for England. It further transpired that Ingwersen had borrowed various sums of money, such as £2O and £25, from some of the attendants, both male and female, connected with the asylum, and had thus made up a purse for travelling expenses. It is also stated that he telegraphed from Christchurch to several friends in Wellington, to the effect that he was in urgent need of funds, and desired to borrow £2O till his return to Wellington. By this means he also obtained additional funds. It has been known that for a considerable time past Ingwersen was in embarrassed pecuniary circumstances. He had contracted a penchant for horse flesh, buggies, and other pleasant but expensive pleasures, which ill-suited his modest salary. He was considered a very efficient officer of the asylum, his fault being a free-handed system of living personally, which of course involved him in debt and difficulty. 11 is understood thai, lie was a good deal in' debt all round. Whether before taking his final departure he gave the bill discounters a benefit 'by raising money on persona] securitv we are not yet aware. ] ngwersen had a'pleasant ingratiating manner, and made himself generally liked, so it. is therefore probable that some too confident friends may have cause to mourn ' that he has gone from their gaize like a beautiful dream,' and that ' they will never see him any more."

'ln the Post of to-night there appears the following paragraph: —"The Otago Daily Times in mentioning the receipt of advices from homo notifying the election of Robert (Tillies, of Dnnedin, as a member of the Linnam Society, says —' So far as we know Mr Gillies is the only gentleman in New Zealand on whom the membership of this society has been conferred.' Our contcmI temporary's knowledge of taverns apparently is exceedingly select. Probably no other of Ihe learned societies at home has so many members in New Zealand as the Linnirn Society. There must be epiite half-a-dozen in this city alone, among whom the names of Duller, Kirk, and Trarers immediately suggest themselves," . „.