TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 430, 13 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM Tllli PIIKSS AOIINCY.) ♦ Wellington. September 12. The a"ent for the Transatlantic Insurance Office says that LISOO of the L2OOO for which Alcorn was insured in that office was reinsured in English offices that have no agencies here. According to a valuation of Alcorn's stock, made to-day by experts, it is estimated to have been worth between L9OOO and LIO,OOO. During the day LfiOO were subscribed amongst the mercantile community in a few hours for Mrs. Alcorn and children. So keen was the sympathy that very much more could have been gathered if required. About two years ago, it is said, Alcorn came here with LoOOO or LCiOOO. P»y this fire lie loses every shilling. The cash on the premises amounted to about LIS!), <>| which Ll4 has been found amongst the ruins. Lord and Lady Nor-nanby have sent a letter of sympathy to Mis. Alcorn. At the ; nquest on the child the jury returned a verdict of accidental dentil. September Hi. The outward San Francisco mail will leave all the ports of the C >]miy one day later than the origin.ial dale. Tic Rjtorua will leave Wellington on Sunday, instead of Saturday. * AUCKLAND. September 12. Arrived—Rotorua, from Syd.iey. The Island Ldy, which has just arrived from the Chatham*, lost 1">0 sheep «>ut, nf 400. She repor.s that oOl) bales of wool have lately been washed as :ore from the Ocean Mail ship, wiiich has now gone to pieces. Tlie barque Spirit of the Dawn got away to-day, with a cargo valued at L 52,000.

CHRISTUUUItCH. September V2. At tlic Resident: Magistrate's Court tin's morning, Samuel Need, tain, charged with an attempt to commit a rape on his own daughter, was again brought up. Tiie Resident Magistrate said lie bad decided to deal summarily with the case. He did not think the interests of justice would suffer by it. It was 'probable, <>n the evidence, that the prisoner, if tak u before a jury, would be acquitted of an attempt to commit a rape. There was just a loophole of escape, therefor; lie would deal summarily with the case. The prisoner certainly bad been guilty of a most, vated assault on :i female, and would receive the-severest punishment allowed by law, viz., six nioiit' s' imprisonment with hard labour, and at the expiration of thai time, he would have to find .suhstauli.-il sureties for good conduct for a further period of six months. At the entertainment given last, nii;ht for the benefit of Mr. George Uotterell, who lias given drawing-room entertainments in the Colonies, but now lies very ill at Wellington, LIOO was realised.

HOKITIKA. September I.'}. Whilst the tug Lioness was to winy in the Pelican, which lias arrived from Oamarn, the tug grounded, causing a collision, and damaging the schooner, which had her topmast broken and one side of her bulwarks smashed in. The Lioness remained on the spit, and the schooner sailed in. The tug will get oil' next tide.