TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 38, 22 March 1879, Page 3

T E LEG R A P H I C INTELLIGENCE.

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Wellington, Tuesday, 8 p.m. The steamer Gtlenelly, from Scotland for Auckland, landed the mate and men at Cape Maria, Tasmania. She lost a man overboard. They reported that the Teasel had only a half tank of -water and no coals, and that her sails were all blown away. The steamer Argyle- leaves at once to go to. her assistance. ••■■.•■ ■ ; Th& schooner Cynthia is a, total wreck |ileariloßs, on the .West Coast. 9 The T. Pbttritt, recently principal of the Grammar School at Wellington, and who received the -appointment of head master of the Greytown School only ,a short time^ back, has called - a meeting of hi* creditors. - . Alex. Kamsey dropped dead m Greytown to«day. . ■ , Chbistchttboh, Tuesday, 8 p.m. Mrs. Prebble, one of the. Canterbury pilgrims, died suddenly at Prehhleton yesterday. The deceased lady had been bedridden for some time. Mounted-ctnstable Bashford was fined £1 under the regula'tiens, not for omitting to salute Colonel Brett, but for replying " No," when he should have said " No, sir." Bashford > leaves the force, and takes a publichouse. ;■■•-:;■ ' ' Dtoedin, Tuesday, 8 p.m. A carpenter named William Salmon has been committed for trial for forging the name of a contractor to a cheque for £20. \ " ? " " " Attobxand, Tuesday/ 8 p.m. *" Dr. Wallis met the electors for City West last night, and on being asked if he would vote for Curtis's Educational Bill if brought m next Session, declined to give any explicit or satisfactory answer. A vote of thanks, proposed as an amendment to a vote of confidence, resulted m the show of hands being about equal'; but the Chairman without counting hands or putting the original motion, declared the vote of confidence motion carried, and left the chair, disregarding the protests of a number of those present. ' .At the inquest on the remains of the late Sergeant-major Fraser, late cavalry drillinstructor at Te Awanmtu, the jury unanimously returned a verdict that deceased shot himself while m a fit of temporary ' insanity, . through excessive drinking. • The Premier left Kawau for Wangarei to-day to turn the first sod of th» JLainui Railway. ', ' •: ;•; „: ■: ■