INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 175, 22 March 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From the Press Agency.) Wellington, March 21. Market quotations—Flour, colonial, £12 15s to £13 ; hams, 9d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese, 7-|d ; potatoes, £4 15s to £5 Os od ; butter, 10' d. Guahamstown, March 21. The Governor's reception was most brilliant. The Natives made a grand turn out. The new County road was opened by the Governor. Balclutha, March 21. An extraordinary accident occurred to Williams' coach, running between here and Clinton, to-day. When near to to the Waiwera a slight explosion occurred amongst the parcels, and immediately the coach was enveloped in flames. There were five passengers, who got out with difficulty. The horses were unhitched and a portion of the mail bags saved. Only the ironwork of the coach remains. The cause of the explosion or nature of the material that exploded is unknown. Greymouth, March 21. A remarkable accident occurred at tho races. A mounted constable had dismounted from his horse, when the latter, in shaking himself, made a pistol in the holster explode, the ball of which struck a boy sixty yards away on the arm, and passed through another boy's clothes without injuring him, and finally lodged in a third boy's coat-pocket. The occurrence was purely accidental.