NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2432, 21 January 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBE PHHSB ASSOCIATION.! THAMES, January 21, The RainBain has continued the greater part of the night from ten o’clock yesterday morning. At full tide last evening all the lower portions of the town were under water. This morning the water is over three feet deep in the principal streets, and is doing considerable damage to business places. WELLINGTON, January 21. Burglary. A burglary was committed in town lost night, when the store of Captain Williams, coal merchant, was broken into. An entrance was effected through one of the front windows, The office was ransacked but no valuables were found. The police are investigating the matter, but as yet have no clue to the burglars. TIMABU, January 21. The Weather. The weather is still wot. It rained throughout last night and very heavily this morning. The City of Cashmere. The magisterial inquiry into the wreck of the City of Cashmere is proceeding to-day. The evidence of Captain Boas and the chief mate, Malcolm, was taken this morning. The evidence of the latter is the more important of the two, as the captain was not on board when the ship first drifted. The mate has no idea how the ship first got adrift. He would require to see the end of the chain attached to the anchor in order to form an opinion, and this is not yet recovered. The ship took in a boat load of wool on the afternoon of the accident. Malcolm thinks if he had put down two anchors he could have held where they were till a steamer arrived. The captain believed the launch Lillie Denham could tow the ship out, as she is said to be very powerful for her size, and when tried she brought the ship over her anchor, but her engines were out of order, and ho could not keep up steam, otherwise, the captain eaid, she was powerful enough. The anchor was weighed and the ship towed a little way, then steam ran down and the anchor was cast till steam was up again. This occurred a second time, and then the master of the tug gave in. The ship being close in shore and striking, two anchors were put down. There is a discrepency in the evidence as to when the ship first struck. The captain says she struck before the steamer started to tow, and the mate says not till she had anchored after the first attempt to tow. The mate states that the cables were thoroughly overhauled in June last before entering Calcutta, but had not been overhauled since to his knowledge. DUNEDIN, January 21. The Weather. Heavy rain has fallen incessantly forth® last forty-eight hours, and there are no sign of any abatement. Suicide. Kate Margetts, wife of a cordial manufao. • turer, committed to-day by cutting her throat