TELEGRAPHIC.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 999, 19 February 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(per press association.)

AUCKLAND. Feb. 17

A Swedish seaman named Antonio Pearson, belonging to the barque Gronstrect, was found drowned in. the harbour to-day. Arrived—Matanra, barque, Captain Greenstill, 98 days from London. She brings 50 passengers. Two deaths occurred on the voyage. Reports speaking the Philomene from London to Dunedin, off Tristan d’Acuhana on January 3rd, all well. Mr Bryce arrived from Waikato yesterday night and proceeded at once to Whangarei. A fire broke out at Onehunga at 2 o’clock this the premises of McMahon, general dealer, and destroyed likewise Mclntyre’s iron factory, and the . houses and buildings used as offices of the Mannkau Steam Navigation Company. The origin of the fire is unknown. The damage is estimated at over £SOOO. The only building tenanted was McMahon’s, , who awoke with a sense of suffocation, f The insurances on McMahon’s buildings included £3OO iri the South British, and £2OO on the stock and furniture in the Colonial. Mclntyre’s insurances* amounted to £IBOO on the building. Mclntyre estimates his loss at £3OOO. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 17. _ The steamer Penguin arrived this morning and landed her passengers, but a northerly gale setting o’clock, she had to leave the roadstead for Mannkau, and several intending passengers were accordingly left behind. Bishop Cowie arrived last evening, having "come overland via Napier . NAPIER r Feb. 17. < The Hon. John .Bryce was burnt in ; effigy last night at Waipawa. The effigy was placed on a white horse, at the head of a long procession, the town band playing the Dead March. Onreaching the. river bed, the figure was fixed to a stake on the centre of a pile ol firewood. The effigy Was then addressed as the first white man who has shaken hands with the arch fiend Te Kooti for fourteen years. The fire was -then lighted, and the whole burnt amid groans and a display of fireworks. WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. The Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which recently met at Auckland, having decided to present. an address of welcome to Sir William, Jervois, the Rey. Rainsford Bavin, President of the Conference, who had . been deputed for the purpose, waited upon his Excellency on Thursday afternoon and presented the following address:— 11 To Sir William Jervois. May it please your Excellency,—We, ■ the Animal Conference of the Wesleyan ! Methodist Church of New Zealand, congratulate your Excellency upon your appointment as Governor of this colony. The Methodist Church has ever been loyal to the British throne, and we honor you as representative of the Sovereign whose virtues command onr love and esteem. Recognising that your Excellency’s administration must be closely connected with the social, moral, and religions interests of New Zealand, we write in prayer that you may be richly endowed with wisdom that cometh from above, and may, under the guidance of Almighty God see the best interests of New Zealand prosper. Wishing your Excellency and Lady Jervois every blessing, we are your Excellency’s InmYhile servants, —(Signed) Rainsford Bavin, President: Henry Bull, Secretary.” His’ Excellency read : the following reply : “ To the Members of the Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand.—Gentlemen, ; —I heartily appreciate your expressions of loyalty to the British throne, and of love and esteem towards the person of Her Majesty, and your kind words of

welcome to me ns'her representative. Il shall be my earnest endeavor whilst 1 am amongst yon to do all: in my power to promote the social, moral, and religions interests of the people of this colony, and I sincerely value your prayers on my behalf. Lady Jervois desires to unite with me in thanking you for your good wishes. —(Signed) Wm. F. Drummond Jervois.” GREYMOUTH, Fob. 17. Captain Jackson Burry is here, and is announced to lecture on Monday night. Some earth slips and damage to bridge approaches have been caused in consequence of a heavy rain. OAMARU, FcK 16. The island between the two parts of the Upper Wahabi Bridge has hcen partially washed away, and traffic is suspended. The Hallnlaremeu Valley /'is therefore shut off from traffic communication with the railway line, and unless the bridge is speedily repaired the grain grown in that locality will not be able to reach a market unless at great expense. - DUNEDIN, Feb 16. The journey man potters arc agitating to get up a company on a small scale to work the poetry, They have enlisted the and of the Mayor, of Milton. The' Government have appointed Mr A. H. Ross a member of the Harbour Board.