LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1442, 12 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, May 11. There are 60 entries for the scholarship examination in June. There are 34 boys and 26 girls. New Plymouth, May 11. A young man, 26 years of age, named John Tierney, brother of the landlord of the Occidental Hotel, in Wanganui, lost his life by being smothered last night. He camped near an embankment, a portion of which fell, covering deceased, who was lying in his tent at the time. Auckland, May 10. Mrs Newton, killed at Adelaide on the Orient steamer Potosi, had cablegrammed that she was coming to Auckland with her children to join her husband, who is an engineer, resident at Gisborne. Carrock’s store and residence were burnt at Makakata, and were insured in the Imperial office for £3OO. May 11. Russell’s steamers, managed by Captain M'Gregor, have been thrown into a company called the Northern Steamship Company, capital £150,000. Mutually satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Union Company. The present scope of the Company’s operations is to be confined to all towns north of the East Cape on the east side of the island, and from the North Cape to Wanganui on the west side of the island. A Whatawhata settler named Shepherd is being prosecuted for the illtreatment of John Muir and Elizabeth Hill, children from the Industrial Home placed with him. Wellington, May 11. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, Ellen Frost, Mary O’Kane, and Ellen Nolan, appeared on remand, on the information of the late Superintendent Whitelaw, charging them with having, on the 10th February, ill-treated a female patient. The information was laid just previous to the appointment of the recent Royal Commission, but was adjourned to enable the Commissioners to send in their report before the hearing of the charge. The Bench was of opinion there was not sufficient evidence of ill-treatment, and. the accused were discharged. LATEST TARARUA WRECK NEWS. Invercargill, May 10. Mr Stewart, of Cargills, Gibbs, and Co., returned from Otara to-day. He reports that up to 2 p.m. on Monday 58 bodies in all have been recovered, 45 of these having been found on the Otara beach, and two at Waikawa. The two recovered ah sea were taken to Dunedin. Captain Garrard was buried at Otara on Monday afternoon. Wyndham, May 11. At the scene of the wreck of the Tararua, the body of R. W. Jones, late purser, was recovered yesterday afternoon and identified by his name written on his shirt, and by papers found on the body. Four more bodies were washed ashore to-day, two of them being headless, and most fearful objects to behold; indeed all the bodies now coming ashore are in a dreadful condition. The police, who are compelled not only to handle them, but to examine them minutely in the hope of identification, deserve the greatest commiseration. There are twelve constables still on the beach, amongst them being Inspector Buckley and Detective Toohey, both of whom have been untiring in their efforts to recover and identify the bodies, and who have earned the gratitude of the friends of the deceased passengers who have visited the scene of the wreck, by their civility and never failing readiness to render them all the assistance in their power. The Dunedin constables are expected to return to-morrow. There is a petition going the rounds here for signatures, having for its object the establishment

of a telegraph station at Fortrose, the nearest township to the scene of the disaster. The nearest telegraph station at present is' Wyndham, a distance of between 30 and 35 miles from the beach. There has been no wreckage of any value come ashore up to the time of my leaving the beach. Dunedin, May 11. The Tararua inquiry was continued to-day. The first mate was further examined ; also Williams, a passenger. The second mate was examined all the afternoon. He said all on board were sober, and that Captain Garrard was a teetotaller. The iuquest was further adjourned.