TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 59, 3 January 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

#1 . [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [PEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Roar Chalmers, January 2. The ship May Queen encountered a terrific cyclone in tne Rap pf Biscay on September ?Bth. She lost her bulwarks and crotchet yards. The sea filled the deck, and washed away all live stock. On ' December 7th she met a fierce westerly gale, when the mate, Francis Gedolpbih Boise, was washed overboard. Next day the captain was thrown out of his bunk while asleep, and broke his collar bone. Passed a body in oilskin clothing on the 9th. Detective Dalton, of the London police, arrested a cabin passenger named Jackson on a charge of embezzling £900 the property of the Colney Hatch Company. A bank draft for £450 was found on him. Na?it_, January 2. About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon ihe house of Mr Wood, Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Waipawa, was struck by lightning. The electric fluid entered the building, making an opening in the roof and the side of the wall, and entered^ § room where two children were at tea, struck a little girl, Wood's daughter, on the foot, and a boy, Woods' stepson, on the chest, killing him in» stantly. The girl was only slightly injured. Wood was in the conservatory, and was knocked against the wall by the shock but was not injured, though the paper on the wall was scorched.