LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 716, 15 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] STRANDING OF THE LIZZIE GUY. Westport, January 14. During a heavy gale which raged early this morning, the brigantine Lizzie Guy, in ballast, and with ten tons of produce from Lyttelton to Hokitika, was stranded one mile south of the Buller. Two of the crew are disabled. The vessel is high up on a sandy beach, and the amount of injury has not yet been ascertained. Christchurch, January 14. At the Waste lands Board yesterday the amount sold realised £376 10s. The Hon. R. Stout arrived here yesterday. We have had 24 hours steady rain from the south-west. A man at Rangiora filed his schedule, \ saying he had been robbed of £24000. His premises were searched and £BOO > found secreted in his wife's dress 1 The Primate visited Banks's Peninsula and held confirmation services. Miss Amy Sherwin appears to-night at the Theatre Royal. At the City Council yesterday the committee's report recommending new Municipal offices was adopted. Tenders for designs will be called for. The sum. of £250 was voted to the Water Supply Committee for a series of experiments. A thousand souls will be added to j' our population on the arrival of three j ships expected between January 25th ! and Febuary 15 th. ' In consequence of the heavy rain the southern line at Ash burton, Rangitata, and Rakaia has been damaged. At the . later place, owing to the works of the Rakaia and Ashburtou Forks Railway i damming back the storm water, it burst j and washed away the south liup. Traffic j is stopped, bat will probably be resumed j to-night. Wellington, January 14. I There was a givat gale yesterday. j The frames of the new Methodist I Chapel aud the. Foresters' Hall were j 'down down, involving a 10-s of £SOO j to the contractors. Great destruction ! of windows. Theket-.h Forest Queen, ! engaged in removing cargo from the ! Hyderabad, was blown ashore, and hei came a total wreck. She was insured j in the New Z 'aland Insurance Corn- : piny for £750. The steamer Glenelg ! hid a narrow escape at .the same place. At midnight an nuthouse of a resij dance in Wordsworth street was de- | stioyed by fire. j An action for slander was brought j to-day by Gollop, a well-known billiardi player, against Inspector Atcheson, but j resulted in a nonsuit, the Chief Justice j ruling that in the absence of express malice any communication by one police officer to another for the guidance of police reports was a privileged communication. Auckland, January 14. Port of Auckland, December quarter.—lmports, £323,160; ditto for the year 1877, £206,530. Exports, £15,256 j ditto for the year 1877, £21,220. ' At a banquet given last night at the Thames to Mr Sheohau, that gentleman | said in his speech that the native diffiI culty was now caused by intri^uim* | bitiropeans. A free fight ensued amongst the crew of the James Wishart, from London. : Tiie second officer and two seamen ! w.'re apprehended, and the offenders fined this morning. Duxedin, January 14. Crews from Christchurch and Tin arti will compete at Henley, at the Taieri ] I legatta. A number of the New Zealand Railway j Waggon Com; .any's waggons are air- ady j v.inning on the Middle Island Railway, | and more will be available for work j this week ; 250 will bo at work before | the end of the year. The grain traffic | on the main line, ahcut which there ■ were so many complaints last session, . will be materially assisted. I The last batch of immigrants per i Oamaru all met with ready engagements at good wages. The supply of | single women is not nearly equal to the i demand. j The tender of John Whitaker, ' £36,025 14s Bd, was accepted for the Waimea Plains railway ; 35 miles of rails to be supplied by the company and laid by the contractors. The contract time is twelve months. The estimated value for rateable pvoj perty in Dunedin for the year 1879 is

£275,000, showing an increase -of £25,305 on 1878. J"ha H. Shaw, member of the commission recently appointed to revise the New Zealand Statutes, arrived by the Ringarooma, and goes to Wellington to-morrow.