MAJOR ATKINSON AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 987, 22 January 1883, Page 3

MAJOR ATKINSON AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

[REUTER,—COPYRIGHT.] (Received, January 22, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. The steamship Cambria was bound from Hamburg to New York. There were 490 souls on board when she sailed. Up to the present only 56 been saved, and the worst is feared as to the fate of the remainder. - NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Intelligence is to hand of a serious railway accident on the overland line between San Francisco, and Omaha. A train bound for the former place slipped while ascending a steep gradient and rolled over the embankment. The engine and all the carriages were shattered to pieces. So far as it is at present known twenty passengers have been killed. BERLIN, Jan. 21. The death is" announced to-day of Prince Frederick Charles, brother of Emperor William, bora 1801.

■ The following letter has been handed to us for publication. It was received by Mr Sherwood on his return from a trip to the south, and appears to have been posted the day' after that gentleman’s arrival in Wellington : G. F. Sherwood, Esq., Patea. Sir,—With reference to a resolution carried at a meeting of m3 7 constituents at Patea on the 14th October last, requesting me to meet them at an early date, and appointing a committee to wait upon me and see what support the Government will give towards improving the river, and whether they would support the reconstruction of the Harbour Board, I regret to say that I am still unable to fix a date whereon to invite ray constituents to meet mo, but I expect to be in Patea about the 12th or 13th prox., when I shall be happ} 7 to confer with the committee or others respecting any matters demanding attention. With regard to the Harbour works I may say I shall continue to be found in the future, as I have been in the past, always ready to do all in my power to aid in the carrying out of a work of such importance. I sincerely hope we may be able to devise some means lo carry it to a successful issue. Believe me, : Yours truly, H. A. Atkinson.; Wellington, Dec. 30.