LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 127, 28 June 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] WELLINGTON. June 25. At the installation yesterday of Sir D. M‘Lean, as District Grand Master for the North Island, no fewer than 300 Masons were present—representatives from Lodges in all parts of the colony. The ceremony was performed in a most impressive manner by D.G.M. Lazar (Westland). The musical portion of the ceremony was very effective. At the banquet which was subsequently hold, 120 persons sat down. The whole of the proceedings passed off with entire success. June 27. TLM.S. Nympho sailed for Auckland, where she will take in stores, and return immediately. It is expected that the Piako Swamp debate will be brought to a division tonight, though Ministers will not press for it if any one wishes to continue the discussion. GREYMOUTH. June 24. Last night, John James, second steward of the steamer Tui, while stepping from the wharf on to the steamer, fell into the river, and was drowned. - Through a bursting of a culvert, thirty feet of the Brunnerton railway fell into the river. The train had a very narrow escape, the wheel of the last carriage going partly down. Traffic is of course, suspended. June 27. The Brunnerton railway is repaired, and traffic resumed. The ferryman at the Teremakau found a child’s jacket on a snag close to the river. In picking it up, the arm of a child dropped out and was carried off by the current. It is supposed to be a portion of the remains of the children, lost at the Christchurch road. HOKITIKA. Juno 24, A most determined suicide took place this morning. E. Stcnnard, brewer for Pizzy and Co., took upwards of an ounce of sulphuric acid. On the discovery being made, Dr. James was sent for, and he, on arrival, promptly applied a stomach pump, and administered antidotes. Hopes are entertained of his recovery. A fearful flood and destruction of property has occurred here. The encroachment of the sea last night and this morning was greater than has been known for nine years. From the flagstaff to Johnston’s right-of-way, near Revel!-street, all fences and out-houses have been washed away, the sea making clean breaches through the Empire right-of-way, past the Bank of New Zealand, to Cameron’s Hotel, Campstreet. Gutters were cut across the footpath at Crerar’s and other shops, the water flowing through them across Revcll-street. Great fears are entertained for the safety of the Empire Hotel and adjoining premises. The damage already done is estimated at about £3,C00. DUNEDIN. June 24. The Guardian urges Dunedin to take up the Fiji trade abandoned by the Auckland Company from faults in the management. It is still raining heavily. Great damage is done throughout the country. All the inland railways have stopped running.