TELEGRAMS' INTERPROVINCIAL. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1552, 15 June 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS' INTERPROVINCIAL. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Yesterday. Information has been received that the steamer Westport is on shore in Horseshoe Bay, six miles from Akaroa Heads. No lives were lost. The captain thinks she cau be got off with assistance. Later. The steamer Westport, which lefti Timaru last night for Lyttelton, with " grain, ran ashore during the fog at two this morning in Horseshoe Bay, six miles south of Akaroa light. At low water she was dry forward, and in 7 fathoms astern. The lower' part of her stern was all twisted and broken. There is also a hole in the fore tank, and a leak in the fore hold. , Assistance was at once sent for to Lyttelton, and the crew set to work to jettyson the cargo ,to enable them to g^fi at the .leak. During the afternoon she floated off, and proceeded to Akaroa. The full extent of her injuries is not yet ascertained.

CHRISTCHURCH, Yesterday. Consequent upon the great increase of work in the Kaiapoi Woollen' Factory, 180 additional hands are • to' be put on at -once. ' f'<■ r The industrial prize at the Exhibition has been awarded to the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, J It is proposed to establish a Ladies' Club at Christctiurch/ ' '-'-« The prisoner; Longmans;** «&«* Elms, alias Eunsdale, -on remand for burglary made his'es^pe'thismormneHhrougn the window of the room in which he was confined at thejß.M, Court, fin waiting for .the Court. He has not yet been re-cap* tured. ', " ~~ v' > was \ reserved iri ,th 6 case of — iStudholma'jtf/ !?the#<saieeri. >; Mr I&lison^ 1 Smith in'his^e^idlnge^saidKthe'.^park- ; catchers used^ei^tlie^bestiaade. They

had tried all sorts, but none were perfect, though the apparatus used m New Zealand was the best invented.

INVERCABGILL, Yesterday. A number of runs in Southland were submitted for lease to-day, but only in three c.ises was more thau the upset rental of 2d per acre per annum obtained. The tenure of lease is 10 years.