INTER PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 234, 15 October 1878, Page 2

INTER PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(per press aqenoy.)

Grahamstown, Oct. 11. A miner named James M'Kelvie, working in the Queen of Bounty on tribnte, had a miraculous escape to-day. He was going into an old pass to work aad wanted to clear it,, when lie used a pole, and the well ■ beneath •gave way, taking him down with the 'debris some 30ft. Men were working'from 10 a.ni. to 5 p.m. to get at him, hoisting stuff and cutting timber. They; could hear his cries all the while, :for the stones fell about him in such a way as to leave him breathing room, though doubled up by ; the boulders. He was taken to the Hospital and found much bruised. The small' bone of his leg. was broken, but otherwise ho was well after seven hours in his living tomb with boulders above aud below him. ; . ; OAMARU,0 AMARU, Oct. 11. NATIVE OUTBAGES IN THE SOUTH. : . At the County Council meeting, Messrs Duncan and Sutherland stated that the Maoris in the Upper Waitaki had been going about with tomahawks and loaded guns. They also yarded settlers' sheep, and killed them for their own purpose, while if the shepherds interfered they had tomahawks brandished in their faces, and their lives threatened. The Natives had also ploughed up some of the settlers' land. The following resolution was carried :—" That this Council would respectfully wish the members for the district in Parliament to call the attention of Government to the lawless proceedings of the Maoris in this County, especially* at Otekuiki, arid Omarama,' '■ and as this state of things has, existed a long time, the Council hopes that immediate actlpu will be taken for the protection of life alid property ; also that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Chairuan in Wellington." :