INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 197, 18 September 1878, Page 2

INTER PROVINCIAL.

pPREBB AGENCY.] Westport, Tuesday night. Arrived— brigantine Augusta, from Port Chalmers, with railway iron for the Westport Colliery Company. The steamer Tararua last night on the run from Nelson to Westport, got aground for four hours on tbe Spit close to where the Queen Bee was wrecked. The cause assigned 3s aberration of the compasses owing to the quantity of Taranaki Titanic sand on board as cargo. Ixvercaegill, Tuesday night. The Oreti was got off yesterday afternoon and taken to tbe pier. She had strained herself severely, and when surveyed to-day it was found that several of the frames of the midship section were broken. This is the extent of the damage. Her plates are intact, only Sne rivet having started, and her sheer not affected. She is to ship enough timber to stay her, and will return at once to Port Chalmers to be docked. Auckland, Tuesday night. Sailed— Taiaroa, for South. Passengers for Nelson: Mrs Fielder, Messrs Caughiey, Engel, Taine, and Raine. Christchjjhch, Wednesday. A meeting of Cornishmen was held last night, and a Committee was formed to collect subscriptions for the purpoae of making a New Zealand gift from the Cornishmen of this colony for a new cathedral in Truro. At a public meeting held at Kowai Pass on Monday evening it was resolved that the test route for the railway from the East to the West Coast was via Waimakari and Taupo. Six American engines have arrived at Port Chalmers in the Southminster from New York for the Christchurch and Dunedin sections of the railway. Lawrence, Wednesday. Yesterday while a man named Percy Greeves was driving a load of firewood from the Molyneux Bush, the dray went over an embankment carrying three horses with it and drowning them. On Monday morning a stable belonging to William Cunning, at Dunkeld, caught Are and burnt three horses to death. The building was not insured.