TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 21, 23 June 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

'." (united prkss association.) . Nelson. Saturday. Some time ago the Aniseed Valley Copper Mining Company sent a parcel of ore to Hamburg, and the returns are now to hand. They show that it yielded 80 per cent, of copper, and silver at the rate of six ounces to ton. Frederick Ransome Seaborn, an exGovernment Insurance agent, was arrested on a charge of embezzling some £20 belonging to the Association, and has been sent to Hokitika, where the warrant was issued. New Plymouth, Tues.Uy. It ia reported that Inspector Pardy, m eroHsinsr a swollen river on horseback, hear Pariliakn, was washed down a strenttt about 50 yards, (lie horse rolling over him. Constnbl.) Ryan, m trying to -rescue him, was himself washed off his ~hora«. The party have not reached town. Later : Inspector Pardy returned to town about eleven this morning. He said that he and Constable Ryan had a very narrow escape. If it had not been for a .projecting rock and an overhanging tree, they would have been drcnviu-d. He sayshe is much bruised and shaken. Constable Ryau is able to lvsuine bis duty, at Paribaka. The river runs along by Pmigarehn, and is a rciy treacherous stream, and has beeu much Bwolleii ; by" th«J rains. ■'' "Wellington, Monday. The mails by the Aonu»;,'i, 260 ba«s, ; leave- Port "Chalmers for Lyttelton by the Penguin this afternoon and reach here on W3dn.-sd.ly forunoon. Tin; Aorangi leaves at once for Auckland which is rnally her first port, she having called off P««r! Chalmers merely for the purpose of landing tin; mails. T»i« Kaikoura arrivod at Plymouth m 37 ilayi" 9 lioiim from Lyttelton, and notwitlißiatidinjj she was three days late m leaving, «h« delivered her mails a day m advance of time-table date, the fastest passage on record.