Telegrams.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1103, 22 July 1882, Page 2

Telegrams.

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, July 21. The South British Insurance Co. has been advised that on the 18th instant, in London, the rate for Suez Canal risks was 2s 6d. A seaman of tho cutter Tread fell overboard in the harbor to-day, and was drowned. He leaves a wife and three children.

A young woman named Waring died of fright on Wednesday. On Monday she was nearly run over by a cart, and took a succession of fits, which terminated fatally. She had been only eight months married. A Te Aroha swamper named George Harrison, working on Lovett’s swamp contract at Waitoa has been missing since Monday. Heleft Waitoa Hotel on that afternoon with his mate, who returned in the evening, and stated he had missed Harrison and could not find him. The police constable stationed here went in search yesterday, on hearing the circumstances, but could learn nothing. It was supposed the man was lost in the swamp. Mr Leigh, Victorian Mining expert, who has been here same days, has taken up several lease arrears for Victorian capitalists. Dunedin, July 21. In the Supreme Court, Eliza Whitten, for larceny, was sentenced to 3 years. Samuel Henry Lees pleaded guilty to uttering his father's name to a cheque, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment without hard labor. Chas. Walking and Andrew Nelson were also each sentenced to a mouth's imprisonment without hard labor, for forging Hennessy’s labels to brandy bottled by them; the brandy seized was ordered to be forfeited.

The Union Company received cable advices of the sailing of their new steamer Wairnrapa from Clyde, qn the 18th July. She is expected to arrive in Melbourne on the Ist September, Captain Kitchener diyd shortly after 10 q'piook thjs moyniug) from tho ei'«

fects of injuries received at the late fire.

Wellington, Friday. The appointment of H. J. C. Andrews to be Harbormaster for Poverty is gazetted. Telegraphic communication between Alexandria and Cairo is interrupted. Information has been received by the Customs Department from the officer in charge of Customs at Foxton that the ketch Elizabeth, with 17 tons coal aud coke, from Wellington and Foxton, went ashore at 3 am. to-day, about 7 miles south of the entrance to Manawatu river. All hands were saved and the vessel not damaged. The Captain expects to be able to relaunch her after discharging cargo. The Government intend to hold another sale of land on the West Coast during the month of September next. The lands to be disposed of on deferred payments to be open at Hawera on the 6th of Sept., while the cash land will be sold by auction at Hawera on the Bth of September. A telegram received here states that the schooner Aspasia, from Foxton to Minatau, Pegasus Bay, with a cargo of lumber, is ashore at the latter place. It is believed she will become a total wreck. The Aspasia was a small vessel, about 45 tons, and under the command of {Captain Moore, her owner, and all lives were saved. The vessel was insured in the Batavia office for £350.