TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1230, 27 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per pkess association.) WELLINGTON. March 27. . Some ■wreckage is reported by the Maoris as being in. Barnes' Bay, and has been identified by the Marine Department as part of the Mabel Jane, wrecked on the West Wanganui coast in 1878. The Governor has received a cable message from the Governor of New South Wales stating that Her Majesty's ambassador at Paris has been instructed to urge the French Government to prohibit assistance being given to liberated convicts in emigrating from New Caledonia to the Australian Colonies. DUNEDIN. March 27. • The steamers Wakatipu and Wellington arrived yesterday. The Wanderers are playing the Dunedin Club. Four of the Christchurch players are out for 50, Secretah making 27. Sailed —Otaki, ship, for London.

KUMARA. • : . . : . March 26. A serious accident occurred this afternoon, the king-bolt of a hearse coming out, and the horses bolting. The hearse was returning from .a funeral, and ,four children were riding'on it. They and the, driver were all seriously injured and cut." CHRISTCHURCH. March 27. Of twenty-four horses in the free handicap only Le Jjoup, Chancellor, Tera, and On Dit had "iicepteid' on ThQrsday. On that evening a. notice was posted in the Commercial Hotel" that Grip was scratched for all his engagements" at the autumn meeting. . . . ; Up to 8.55 on Thilrsdfiy over 2000 tons of produce had been brought into Christchurch in 338 trucks. On Thursday morning 15 stacks of wheat, oats, and barley were destroyed by fire at Mount Thomas, belonging to Major and Jarvis. -The stacks were in a threehundred acre paddock, in blocks a quarter mile apart; As: they were all on lire at the same time, the firing is supposed to have 1 een the work of an- incendiary. The stacks, are said to be fullj. insured in the London, Liverpool; - and Globe office."' The schooner Saxon still lies in the same. position on. the. Waimakariri bar.. The ketch Courier has been chartered to take from Lyttelton a load of iron tanks to assist in floating the schooner. On Thursday the heaviest sea ran that has been seen- on, the coast .for a long time, and broke ab'out~ a mile outside the bar, but the schooner received, no injury. A telegram has been received stating that she i 3 insured in Auckland for L7OO. Considerable "sensation was "caused in town yesterday through the arrival of the Volunteers. Tlie streets were crowded by spectators. Eleven; hundred arrived from the South, and the steamer Hinemoa, brought 160 from Nelson, and 159 from Wellington. AU the companies will parade for battalion drill this morning. There is a complaint from Ashburton that some of the Southern Volunteers,when passing through yesterday went into a ahop to buy -fruit and tobacco. The proprietor being in b.e.d,. they, cleared the shelves, stealing LB-worth of' articles. ASHBURTON. March 27. " ; Much indignation.::.has' : been;.aroused here through the conduot of some 60 or 70 of the Southern ■Volunteers, -who, on their way to "Christchurch on Good Friday, rushed and robbed a,woman's shop of all the fruit, biscuits, pipes, matches, oigars, and tobacco they could reach. Seme L 8 or LlO worth of goods were stolen. The Volunteers belonged to several companies, and were not all Navals, as stated in the papers. There were not more than half a dozen Navals. GRAHAMSTOWN. March 27. : About 800 men will be present at the Easter Monday Review. The Waikato Cavalry, 150 strong, arrived this afternoon, and the Auckland Artillery this evening. The town is gaily decorated, and a grand pyrotechnic display will take place to-jaight. The visitors will be entertained at a ball by the citizens and at a banquet by the Volunteer officers. WESTPORT, March 27. Two truck loads of the Westport Colliery Company's coal were brought to town on Thursday. More will come in on Thursday next.