YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 935, 23 June 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS

INTERPROVINCIAL. [pee peess agency.] Supposed Loss of the Elizabeth Conway Auckland, June 22. The Collector o£ Customs is distributing £ISOO worth of bronze coin. New Plymouth, June 22. The cutter Dawn, recently stranded, is quite broken up, and the beach is strewn with debris. Masteeton, June 22. In the R.M. Court to-day judgment was given in the case of the proprietors of the News v those of the News Letter, The action was brought to recover £SO damages for loss sustained through the defendants using a telegram which was missent to them. No evidence was brought forward to prove that the defendants had not received a similar message, but judgment was given for £5 and costs. Notice of appeal was given. G-eeymouth, June 22.

The wreckage at Seventeen Mile Beach is from a schooner supposed to be the Elizabeth Conway. A quantity of oats has been washed ashore. There are no signs of any of the crew. It is supposed that all are lost. The weather is again threatening, and all the steamers in port are detained. Port Chalmers, June 22.

There was a tidal wave this forenoon. The water was greatly agitated, and fell five inches in five minutes.

[from a correspondent op the press.] 'Confession of a Murder at Oamaru. Timaru, June 22.

A man named Daniel McQuarrie gave himself into the custody of the police at Waimate this morning. He stated that ho had murdered his mother at Oamaru last night. Dunedin, June 22.

At Oamaru circumstances have come to light showing that Mrs McQ.uarrie’s sudden death yesterday was the result of violence. Shortly after her death her eldest son, aged 20, disappeared. During the progress of the inquiry this afternoon the coroner received a telegram that the son had given himself up to the police at Waimate on the charge of killing his mother. It is said that the deceased was given to drink, and that her son thrashed her.

Mr Clayton, Colonial Architect, is engaged in making a valuation of all the G-overnment buildings in this district. He is being assisted by Mr Wales. At Clinton on Tuesday, as Judge Ward descended from the coach on his way to Invercargill, he ordered into custody a drunkard named Hall who was using abusive language, and there and then sentenced him to fourteen days’ hard labor, the transaction only occupying the time during which the horses were being changed.