TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5110, 9 August 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCT.) Nelson, Wednesday. Late last night Edwards and Co. received the following telegram from Motueka; — u The ship Queen Bee struck Farewell Spit last night; there was ten feet of water in the hold when we loft. Send assistance immediately. No further particulars yet known.” The steamers Lyttelton and Lady Barkly were at once despatched to her assistance. The Queen Bee has 30 passengers and a large cargo for here. Adskland, Wednesday. The examination re Levy and Goldwater has concluded. Henry S. Meyers and Moses Montague, trustees under the Bankruptcy Act, disputed the tranfers, and gave evidence, when both swore they knew nothing as to the kind or value of the property assigned. Mr. Hesketh at the- conclusion abandoned his application to set aside the transfers, but applied under the 149th section that the debtors’ deed of arrangement should be declared an act of bankruptcy, as being frivolous and vexatious, and not bond fide for a beneficial arrangement with creditors. Mr. Devore, for the debtor, offered no opposition, and the order was granted. r Mr. De Lias has engaged a new' dramatic company from Sydney, starting on the 25th. ' The body found in the Waikato proves to be the body of a boy drowned in January. A meeting of cricketers has appointed a committee to ascertain the expense of receiving a visit from the Australian team. A little girl four years old, living at Hokianga, was amusing herself burrowing in a sandhill, when the bank fell in, burying her.