LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 646, 23 October 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Auckland, Octohpr 22. The mail steamer is signalled, and is expected to arrive about 7 o'clock. The case, M'Gee v. the Ancklnnd Jockey Club, for alleged libel in connection with the disqualification of Falc >n, resulted in a vprdict for defendants on all issues, Christchurch,'October 22. In he case Herlings v. the Mande-

ville Road Board, an action to recover da rouges for trespass, a verdict was given for the plaintiff of £SO. A. D. Austin has been appointed ■Resident Engineer of the Public Works Department for the district of Canterbury. The Government has appointed Mr John Gulliver, District Auditor, to hold an enquiry into claims for compensation for land taken for road diversion purposes by the last Provincial Government in Akaroa and ether districts. Nelson, October 22. The heaviest earthquake for years was felt shortly before eleven last night. Clocks stopped, and pictures were thrown down, but no other damage. Dunedin, October 22. The guard of the goods train in the late collision at Palmerston has been discharged, but the station master has been reinstated. Subscriptions to the Flood Relief Fund now amount to £I4OO. Mrs'James Reid, charged with having committed perjury during the recent sly grog selling prosecutions, has been ' committed for trial. LATEST UNPUBLISHED. WRECK OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND. Otaki, October 23. At eleven o'clock the City of Auckland, from London bound to Napier, went ashore with Captain Loins and 240 passengers. No lives were lost iu landing the passengers. The Hinemoa leaves Wellington for the scene of the wreck at noon. Later, 12.15p.m. The ship City of Auckland, from London, was bound for Napier with railway material and 240 adult immigrants. She is ashore near the mouth of the Otaki river. The vessel came ashore about 9 o'clock last night, in a very heavy north-went gale. Great excitement appear* to prevail amongst the passengers who are throwing boxes, etc., overboard. The lifeboat came ashore in charge of the second mate, and every endeavor to land passengers is heing made. The residents of Otaki are making every arrangement for the reception of the passengers, and traps and Cobb's coach are on the be-ich waiting to drive them to the township. The .beach is lined with natives who are hauling np the wreckage Wellington, October .22. Papers laid on the table of the House by the Telegraph Commissisn show i that the Government have leased a j special wire to Reed, of the Dunedin ! Times j Keeves, of the Lyttelton Times ; ! and llorton, of the Auckland Herald, ! for two years, at £2OOO annually, the ' wire to hi; available from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., aiid till 3 a.m during the session. ! Holt and M'Oarthy petition Parliament against it to-day.