TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5142, 15 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Wanganui, Friday. The news of the loss of the Avalanche has oast a gloom over the town. Among Wanganui people known or supposed to be on board are Miss Watt, daughter of the Mayor, Miss Taylor, Miss Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins and family, Mrs. E. Gray, and others. Foxton, Friday. A man named Svensen Olsen, a Swede, about twenty years of age, was found last night with his neck broken at Awahuri, near Palmerston. Eeefton, Friday. The investigation of the till robbery at Gilmer’s has resulted in the committal by E. Schaw, K.M., of Henry Smith, late manager. Hokitika, Friday. Six thousand five hundred and forty-four ounces of gold were shipped to Melbourne from the West Coast ports per Tararua, valued at £26,000. Christchurch, Friday. A ewe, the property of F. Dodd, of Southbridge, gave birth to four lambs. All are now alive.

The Girls’ High School opened yesterday with 90 pupils. The Railway Servants’ Society met last night to consider the proposals made by the Superintending Engineer that all railway societies in the colony should amalgamate. A resolution was passed in favor of amalgamation, provided the objects of the Christchurch Society be preserved in their entirety, and the head office be at Christchurch, and the management be free from Government control. The following is the result of the City Council election :—William Radcliffe, 1367 ; William Pratt, 1288 ; John George Rudenklau, 1234; Professor Bickerton, 949 ; Henry Thompson, 976 ; Charles Thomas Ick, 875 ; James Alexander Bird, 830 ; Charles Edwin Briggs, 735; Enoch Henry Banks, 594; Henry Toomer, 555 ; Samuel Fair, 531; Aaron Ayres, 472 ; Berry Cass, 513 ; William Tremayne, 481 ; Henry Lorensen, 400 ; Reuben Binstead, 185. Thompson, Ick, and Bird were the retiring Councillors. All the others were new candidates. More votes were polled than on any previous occasion. Timaku, Friday.

At the meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday an important letter was read from Sir G. Coode, in reply to a statement made by Mr. Carruthers before a Parliamentary Commission last year re the Timaru harbor works. A fierce gale from the northwest has been blowing during the night. It still continues. Lawrence, Friday.

A private house, the property of Mr. Meyer, was totally destroyed by fire this morning at daybreak. This residence was situated in the suburbs, and before the firebell rang the root had fallen in. The place was detached or the consequence would have been serious, as the Water main could not reach it. The Fire Brigade wes on the spot, but their services were of no avail. The family had only bare time to escape from the building. The furniture was insured for £2OO in the Victoria Office, and the house in the Northern Office for £2OO. It is expected an inquiry will he held. Dunedin, Friday.

Mr. Blair, the District Engineer, forwarded a report to the Taieri Board of Conservators on the best means of preventing the flooding of the Taieri Plains in the future. The scheme he proposes will oost £30,000. A serious affair occurred at Messrs. Sparrow and Co.’s foundry yesterday, whereby a boy named Valentine Moreton, aged fifteen, was severely wounded.;, He was engaged heating rivets, when one of his mates named Stewart Newton, aged thirteen, interfered, and was told to mind his own business. Thereupon a quarrel arose, and Newton having fallen on his back went away, and returned three or four minutes afterwards, saying to Moreton, “ I will make you pay for the way you pushed me a little while ago.” He then picked up a piece of irom and was about to throw it at Moreton, when the latter rushed upon him and knocked the iron out of his hand. They had another struggle, and Newton commenced to savagely use his pocket-knife, with which he stabbed Moreton in two places on the left leg and on the left side. The knife was taken from Newton by oue of the boilermakers. Moreton was removed to the hospital yesterday afternoon. Dr. Tighe expressed his belief that the cut on Moreton’s side was of a very serious character, the knife having entered the body about two inches, in an upward direction, and between two of the ribs. Newton was apprehended on warrant.