TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1290, 26 May 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

WELLINGTON. * May 25. At the Police Court to-day, the charges against the captain and officers of the Manawatu were heard. Captain Daile, for proceeding to sea without his full complement of men, was fined 20s, and D. "White, the purser, for falsifying the articles, was fined L 5.. The charge against the agent, for fraudulently shipping men, was dismissed. Two men, unknown, were drowned in Wairarapa Lake on Saturday. They were endeavoring to drive a mob of cattle over the mouth of the Lake, when the boat which they were in capsized. The body of one was washed up on the beach. The other has not yet been recovered.

CHRISTCHUECH. May 26. The whole of this season's produce of grain, belonging to Mr. Kavanagh, of Mount Thomas, amounting to about 600 bushels, was destroyed by fire on Friday. The origin of the-firS is unknown. The Canterbury Jockey Club have decided to add to their programme at the Spring Meeting a Maiden Race, to be ridden by boys who have never previously won a race of the value of 25 sovs. A man named English, while driving a dray on the "Riccarton road on Monday fell off, fracturing his leg.

DUNEDE*. May 26. Telegrams from London state that the cargo of the Calypso will be all saved, but in a damaged state. There will be a loss of 50 per cent on the outside. The vessel will be towed up tho river and beached at Gravesend.

Mr. Robert Paterson has been appointed a member of the Harbor Board vice Mr. Houghton. The missing man M'Donald turned up last night in an exhausted state. He had lost his way on the Silver Pealcs. The body of the man run over yesterday is identified as William Jamieson, laborer, unmarried. He was going out to his work at Anderson's Bay when the train overtook him.