TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2553, 14 June 1882, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

SECOND EDITION,

NEW ZEALAND.

[fbom a cobbespondent.] AKAROA, June 14,

The steamer Westport is ashore in Horseshoe Bay, five miles from tho south head of Akaroa Harbor. She has a hole in her fore hold, and the lower part of her stem is broken. The crew are oil safe. She is now jettisoning her cargo. There is six fathoms of water alongside the rocks. She went achoro in a dcn3e fog at 2 a.m.

[FEB PEBBS AOBOOIATIOH.J WANGANUI, June 14. In an article on the Bangitikei bridge, the "Herald says that repeated warnings have be3n given to the authorities of the dangerous oondition of the bridge, and something very like what has occurred was foretold. It strongly urges an enquiry, and remarks that it was only by accident there was not a disaster of the same nature a 3 the Tay bridge. INVEROABGILL, June 14. A number of runs in Southland were submitted for lease to-day, but only in three c*ses was there more than an upset rental of 2i per acre per annum obtained. The tenure of the lease is ten years. There was a large attendance of squatters and others in. INVEROARGILL, June 14

A boy named Adam Wells, aged ten year?, recently committed to the Dunediu Bohool, was oharged at the Court tbis morning with having abscondod therefrom. _lt appeared he had walked to Invercargill, doing the journey in three days. The Magistrate ordered his re-committal, a year being added to his teim.