TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

GnKYlt.t.B A Co.’S (Heater's Agents) ExrRESS. ■*> ARRIVAL OF THE 8.8. ST. KIL I) A . MURDER ON THE lIIGII SEAS.— SERIOUS STABBING CASE.—LATER SOUTH EUN N EWS.—F RIGHTF U L ACCIDENT IN OTAGO—A FATHER BURNED TO DEATH BEFORE lIIS SONS’ EYES.—THE FIRE AT GREYMOUTH STILL RAGING.—WRECK OF THE CUTTER BLANCH. Auckland, 9 p.tn. A tv it At. IXG vessel has arrived at the Bay of Islands with one of her seamen in irons on a charge of murder on the high sens.

It appears that the seaman and a heat stccrcr were on one of the yards at work, when a dispute arose, during which the stcerer struck the seaman with a marlinspike, when th* latter threatened revenge. The seaman presently went on deck, followed by the stccrcr.

The seaman went into the forecastle and got a knife with which he stabbed the stccrcr to the heart, killing him instantaneously. The mate of the whaler Crown and .Shield, now lying at 1 lie Bay of Islands, has horn seriously slabbed by a seaman belonging to that vessel. The s.'s. St. Kihla has arrived in the Manukau, and brings Southern news, via Wanganui, to the 24th ilist. A shocking accident has occurred in the North-east Valley, Otago. A spark from the chimney ignited the thatch on a house in which a family named Mason lived. The father, who slept in the upper storey, was burned to death heron.’ his sons’ eyes, who were unable to render him assistance.

A fire is raging at Greymouth. Tivoli Gardens and a cottage belonging to E. 13. Fox are destroyed.

The cutler Blanch has been wrecked at ■Whnuannki. The crew narrowly escaped drowning. Three Maoris with ropes went into the tide, and got them ashore.