LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 339, 17 July 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(per press agency.)

WANGANUI

July IG. Yesterday afternoon, about 5 o’clock, the schooner Ellerlon went ashore. During the day the freshet in the river rose to such an extent, as to render it impossible to send assistance. Daring the afternoon the vessel was getting worse in breakers. At 4 o’clock the captain slipped the anchors, and tried to make sail, the wind blowing off shore. The surf, however, drove her back broadside on to the shore. The Clyde went down, but could do nothing. Soon after a heavy sea struck the schooner, and caused her to slew bows on. When the men found her beached, they took the boat and came off. The owner (Ross) and the captain remained on board all night. At midnight the vessel beached high up on the spit. No serious damage is done. The vessel is insured for £I,OOO. No insurance on cargo, which consists of plant for the railway. CHRISTCHURCH. July 16. At the Supreme Court, Mr Rankin sued the Norwich Union Insurance Company for £IOO, being the unpaid balance on a fire insurance policy. In 1875, Rankin insured a house for £SOO with the Company. In 1877 the house was burned down, when the Company refused to pay more than £4OO, on the ground that the amount tendered by them was the lull value of the house. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for full amount, with interest and costs. Timothy Houlahan, an- elderly man, has been committed for trial on a charge of rape on a girl under eight years of age. Several cases against persons for keeping kerosene for sale without branding the same “ dangerous,” have been dismissed with cautions to defendants. NAPIER. July 16. At a meeting of the Harbour Board to-day, a vote of thanks was passed to Mr Carruthers for his services in respect to the Napier harbor, and a sum of £IOO voted him. NEW PLYMOUTH. July 16. Thomas King was presented with a handsome testimonial, in the shape of a silver tea service, by his friends and customers qf the Bank of New Zealand, on his retirement from management at New Plymouth. The Borough Council agreed that the Mayor should attend the Municipal Conference in Wellington on the 29th instant.

WELLINGTON. July 16. It is generally understood that Ministers will be ready with- their principal measures as soon as the real business of the session commences. The Financial Statement, it is understood, will be ready to be submitted for discussion at as early a period as the House may desire after the opening of Parliament. Copies of the Licensing Bill will be available as soon as it is matured and out of Ministers’ and printer’s hands.