YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1050, 8 November 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

INTERPROVINCIAL. [FEB PRESS AGENCY.] Wellington, November 7. The Post-Ofllce and Telegraph Department will observe the Prince of Wales's birthday as a general holiday. This day has been substituted in place of the anniversaries of the late provinces. Mr C. H. Snow, of the audit deparimcnt, while walking to his office this morning, was knocked down am\ run over by a horseman who turned a corner suddenly and unexpectedly. Mr Snow sustained a fracture of the thigh bone below the socket. The doctor says it will be six months before he can get about. Dunedin, November 7. Mr Millar, proprietor of the Ofcago steam laundry, was fined to-day the nominal penalty of Is for employing females in his establishment after 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Death of Queen Pomare. The Barque May in a Typhoon. Auckland, November 7. The schooner Wave of Life, which has arrived from Rorotonga, brings the news of the death of Queen Pomare, of Tahiti. Wellington, November 7. The barquentine May, which has just arrived after having been blown away from the H~ads some days ago, reports encountering a tremendous Typhoon on the 4th, sth, and 6th of August in lat. 23. 30 N., long. 122. 30 E. The Captain reports that the ship was under storm canvas all doubly screwed on the yards, when the gale broke upon them. Everything moveable on the deck had been lashed extra fast. Soon after the gale struck the ship her mainsail which was close reefed, and the mainstaysail were blown to pieces. The ship was then br -ught up to the wind under bare poles. During the night she shipped a sea which broke the lashings of several casks, capsized the water cask, carried a cask of provisions overboard, shifted the water tanks, and did a good deal of other damage. The wind continued with unabated fury on the sth. One sea burst in the forward door of cabin, filling the cabin and forecastle with water and washing the man at tne wheel to the top of the house. There was no change all that night, and on the morning of the 6th the gale had reached its height. It was impossible to look to the windward so blinding was the rain, wind, and sea foam. It was impossible to speak or move. All that could be done was to hold on as tightly as they could. (3-reat apprehensions for their safety were felt, as they were driving on to land, the island of Formosa being on their lee, as well as could be reckoned, for no observation could be taken for three days not having seen the sun or any stars. At noon of the 6th the gale commenced to take off and all hands went to work bending new sails. From this time the weather gradually improved. During the time the typhoon lasted the barometer kept going up and down three and four-tenths. The captain reports that, while in Cook Strait, he passed a barque which he took to be the German barque Dramond, which left Foochow on the Ist August. It is reported here that the Carl Ludwig, for Dunedin, which left at the same time as the May, has put into Yokohama disabled.