LATEST TELEGRAMS

Kumara Times, Issue 560, 13 July 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[press agency.] Dunedin, July 12. Mr J. C. Brown addressed his constituents last night, arid received a vote of thanks at the conclusion of his speech.

At one of the principal polling-booths, Taieri, yesterday, the Returning Officer locked the door and went for bis dinner, tho consequence was, some of the electors were unable to gain admittance to the polling-booths.

Auckland, July 11. A warrant was issued, to-dav, for the arrest of a Q. Howard, charged with a violent assault on Mr Woolfield, of Slaughterhouses. The latter alleges that Howard drove, last night, in a cab to the Thistle Hotel, walked in where Wo-dfield was standing in the bar, and struck him two violent blows with a riding whip, one of which laid his hat open, and the other made a cut over his eye. He alleges that Howard then walked otit.' The schooner Merlin, arrived at Kaipara from Waitara, reports that while crossing the Waitara bar, a heavy sea Washed two seamen, John Murphy and W, F. Dean, overboard. The sea was so heavy at the, time that no attempt could be made to rescue them.

Alexandra, July. 11. The schooner Laetiria, from the South Sea Islands, brings the captain, mate, and part of the crew of the barque Kedah, owned by Reid and Co., Melbourne. The captain reports that the bark sprang a leak in a hnrricane off Cook’s Island, and, notwithstanding all the efforts of the crew, who were unceasing at the pumps, the vessel became water-logged, and a heavy sea broke over her. The crew clung to the wreck till morning, and then made a raft and floated ashore at Kaw Island, to which King George, of Tong*, was paying a visit. He rescued all the crew, except Charles Gullen, a Frenchman, the carpenter. The cargo consisted of 400,000 ft. of timber for Melbourne.

Further particulars from the crew of the barque Kedar show that they were forty-eight days on the water-logged wreck before they sighted the island. During that time they were suffering very greatly from want of water. The crew could scarcely crawl about. They subsisted on fond fished up from the hold and water from a condenser made out of an oil can. Jamieson (second mate) and McGowan (seaman) landed on the island very ill. They were afterwards missing and riot found. The barque was 530 tons, and captain believes was insured in a Melbourne office for £2OOO.

Wellington, July 11. Several of the crew of the barque Elizabeth complained to the Resident Magistrates to-day as to the unseawortbiness of that vessel, sayidg they had been ten weeks at the {jumps. They Wanted the captain to put in at the Gape of Good Hope, when off there' into Rio, and into Hobart Town j oil Coming off Wellington, they declined to ptirap any longer Unless put in there. An inquiry is expected tor be heldJuly 12. A supplementary Gazette to-day, notifies the appointment of Sir George Grey as Commissoner of Customs and Stamps, and Mr Ballrfnce, Treasurer. In the case of Doherty versus the Wellington Education Board, for wrongful dismissal and libel, damages £2OOO, the jury this evening returned a verdict for plantifl for £SO, being three months’ salary.