TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1381, 17 May 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(ONITED PBESi! 4830PfAT.IQlf]

i ; Thursday. ; L 3500 have already been .collected ' for ! the Baptist Tabernacle afhl site (costing piJOj purchased. The build- j ing- will cost about At the soiree yesternight; L 800; was j . John Gibbon, while fastening , the stefperLilyto they river-head wharf ye3tpr4ay, his fgpji tQVn off at; the pile, tt»ifiggoH»imm* warp and,was crushed against t|e,pi}p. : The Hmemoa, with the Governor on board, ■ returned from a cruise in Hauvaki Gdlf: yesternight. Kawau was visitedj and Sir G, Grey entertained his Excellency. Blenheim, Thursday. The:steamer Lyttelton, laden with our and pollard for Wellington, struck

a snng'neav. tlio junction of theWairau and; Opawa rivers 'last night. ./Ou reaphing-the flats it was,found shesa& making .water rapidly, and a consiae® able portionof the cargo was discharges but it 'is believed- that fully is damaged by water. The cargo was consigned to Messrs Turnbull <fc Co., Wellington. - -It is not known if it was insured. .~|

New Plymouth, Thursday.

'lhe steamer Oreti which went ashore | at the mouth of,the ; Waitari river on Tuesday morning is nob'off yet ; she is not expected to float until next spring ThVbodf of'tite in the Waitara river has been found.. j ; , :.Greymouth, this day.s; Mrs Hughes, of Paroa, was fined L 25 for selling three nobblers of brandy without.a license. ; Rain ? i 8 ,much lieeded here as the bar is getting low; ~..t , : |