TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2333, 29 June 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(Unitkd PiiEss Association..), ;,.

llio Portland cement referred to in the Public Works Statement is .being manufactured at Whangaroi. The Company was formed two years ago, and imported machinery from England, Thoy have |«iw got fifty tons ready to be tested, riiu specimen tested some time ago passod the ordeal satisfactorily, The material used is Mahurangi lime. Edward Jackson of Ocean Bay reports a wreckage of timber on the beach near Port Underwood. Hohfdiovedittobea portion of the hull and cargo of tlu ketch 1 names. He has fi.utid a piece of wood painted intload,'color, also won Customs House forms bearing the hiding "Port of Kelson." The Thames traded between Havelock and Nelson, and it is thou/ht she hat been lost with a.tV-haiids. ; '° ' . ' ■■-'. "AlffiKUNd, this day. The schooner Rilby has gone ashore at Awaimi, near Opotiki, and become a total wreck. Nujive's wore lost, _The Pelican was commanded by John Devitfc, not Gilbert Bro,vn, and was bound ■frojn K-,u)>ur;i'tu-iiyttultoh with • timber. ■ f Tho of hercar«n was iJorisigiiudrfo-JOKii Waller,' Christehuwh, the ownerof the vessel. • The Pelican'is insured for £6OO in the Now Zealand, Waller's portion of the.cargo is insured for nearly £9OO in tho same offioe. ' The crow consisted of four men besides the paptainj.;; ~-..■ ■,.}.:.■^■■.■ l x* t:

n . Auckland, this day.- •'" Ihe police received information that the Seas'- was lying •wind bound at Cabbage Bay on Thursday, find was seen by the master of the stoam launch Pearl. The tug steamer, Awhinu, .With police \yaa despatched last night to mako further search.

The four deserters from the Petrel were discharged from-custody yesterday rtn air'order trot«;the.Miiiistorbf Justice. The sentenced men had ton days to run, and they will !> e witnesses against the' Captain and,officers... .-;. ~ ... ..tl ''""'■' ' .Dunedin, tlii'sday. °»l.v twelve men go by tlio triumph to lumberley l;om Dunedin. . The City .Council hayu. settled Invin's c|iiiiai'iSing-(Ti l in-tho"death wifo by the blasting awidtsiif,, for £ISOO. Soma' new claims are understood to have arisen. Both ninth and Smith trains between dnve.rcargilUnd- .Dunedift' were delayed between-■\V,iipiti>;and; Pukerau, whore nine miles lino, more or less, was under water. The extent of damage is not yet .known. ', , ,-, ..•••' i • • ,;. '■.:■. .; fiiis day. The Collector of Customs visited the wwck of fho Pelican at Waitohm Beach, tie found the beach strewn with wreckage. The masts are attached to the wreck by the nuging. Thu vessel is bottom upwards. A man waa stationed by the wreck last night,-and this 1 morning-' a'hole \Vifl •be Iwdnitliehottfimofthoyeaseltoseo whether there are any bodies in her.