TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 48, 15 February 1881, Page 2

TELE GRAPHIC NE WS

[special to manawatu herald.] Wellington, Monday, 7 p.m. The Ooveriioy has aban-loned his intention tif Visiting tb'o" Wtfst Coast Sounds this year, and the projected tour through the South Island is postponed till the Spring. Dr Hector attaches considerable importance to the recent quartz discoveries at Terawhiti. The reef is oi a different character to any previously discovered, and lies in a different direction. Specimens which were crushed yielded at the rate oi' 3i ounces to toii. "The Charles Edward, in going from Greymouth to Westport yesterday, a ruck a sunken rock off the Steeples, and knocked a hole in her bottom. She steamed ahead, but the water rose in the engine-room, and she anchored. She then fired guns, winch were heard at Westport, but no relief being sent she then sent her lifeboat into Westport, when the Grafton catfe out and stood by her all night and towed hey in this morning. Particulars of tluS damage are not yet ascertained. An enquiry 13 to be held. Two destructive fires occurred at Dunedin yesterday, one destroying Hudson's flour mill and factory, and considerably damaging the new Coffee Palace, and the other destroying a house occupied by Harrold, grocer, in Brown street. The Jane Douglas sails for Foxton tonight with excursionists for the Foxton regatta.