INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 227, 20 September 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Donedin Sept. 16. A young moa in a remarkable good state of preservation has been found near Queenstown. The large leg bones presented a strong contrast to the small head, not much bigger than that of a goose. Some of the bones were apparently still full of grease, and most of them had fleshy matter attached, whilst the lower portions of the legs and the feet were covered with the original skin and enclosed tendons and sinews, one of them being covered with a quantity of small feathers, similar in colour to the "bright freckled brown of a Maori hen. The frame is not quite complete. The Wakatipu Mail says that the remains have been offered to Captain Hutton for the Otago Musenm. Dunedin, Sept. 17. Detective Neill, of Dunedin, left this morning for the scene of the murder that took place at Waikawa on Sunday last. Invercargill, Sept. 17. THE ACCIDENT TO THE ORETI The Oreti was got off yesterday afternoon, and taken to the pier. She had strained herself severely, and when

surveyed to-day it was found that several of the'frames .of the midship, section were broken This is the extent of the damage. Her plates are intact, only one rivet having started, and her gear is not affected. She is to ship enough timber to stay her, and return at once to Port Chambers to be docked.