INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1776, 14 August 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The iren barque Kate Tatham, bound from Newcastle to Napier with a cargo of coal, was wrecked at White Bluff, nbout two and a half miles from Wairau river, Blenheim, on Thursday night. It appears that the vessel was bea in? across the Strut with a frcah b.E. bretza and high sen, and u swell, when she got too close in before observing the laud, which w»s obscured by thick weather. Before anything c >uld be dono to work the ship ou> of her dnngerous position, she struck lh» rocks nnd remained fast. The vessel was at once lightened, and (wo steamers attempted to iow her off but were unsuccessfu'. The Kate Tathim was a small barque of 275 ions, twenty-five years old, and owned by Mrssrs Tail aud Mills, of Napier. Both vessel and cargo are insured. The barque wis va'ued at about £2OOO. Mr Peter Grant, Clerk of the R.M. Oourt at Riverton, Otago, and bolder of othor publie offices in the district for many yoars, died of dropsy on Thursday night. He had been thi'ty years ia the eolony. Oury was released from custody at Wei ington on Friday afternoon. He states that he will remain in this colony, and by his future life show that he b not undeserving of the privil< g.i of a free man. Gisparini, tbe French recidivists, was sent to Sydney, en route for New Caledonia, io the Wakatipu on Saturday. Mr Jellicoe, acting on behalf of Gasparioi, the French recidivißto, who is being taken to Sydney by the Wak*. tipu, cabled to Sydney instructing his agents in that city to move for a writ of Jtabeas corpus as soon as Gasparini arrived. The application will be made upon similar grounds to those advanced in the Supreme Court litre and which the court refused to uphold. A fire broke out in Heywood'a Albion hotel, Invercargill, on Saturday moruing, and the tuildiog, which was of brick, was speedily in flames. The brigade were on the eeone ear y and had a plentiful upply of water from Puni Crtek, but were unable to prevent the destitution o: the hotel, which occupied the site of a block burnt down 13 years ago. Lewis and Co's extensive drapery establishment on the north side, and McFarlano'u confectionery shop on the south side, caught fire also, but the b'igade managed to save them, though the stock wts Rreatly darotgrd. It is supposed that the fire started at the bar of the hotel. There were a large number of people at the hotel, and they had just t'me to escape, some being unable to tully drese. All lose their personal effects, anJ several commercial travellers are heavy losers. The hotel was one of the finest in town. The total insurances amount to £11,950, but the loss is much above that sum.