NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1430, 14 September 1878, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PEBSB AGENOT.J Auckland, September 13. Robert Eccles, a passenger by the Lady Jocelyn, was fined £25, and the property forfeited, for smuggling eighteen watches and thirty rasors ashore. Bishop Selwyn, of Melanesia, heard of his father’s death casually from a trader in the islands. He left for Sydney on the first opportunity, thence goes to Norfolk Island, and comes on to Auckland cn route for England. A meeting of Volunteers resolved to support the proposal for a National Rifle Association.

Dunedin, September 13. Seven candidates intend presenting themselves at the half-yearly examination under the Law Practitioners Act on M.onday next.

[from the correspondent of the press ] Dunedin, September 13. At Kaihuku, when a settler named Almond was within a mile of his house on a very bad part of the road, his horse stumbled and fell over an embankment about fifteen feet high. He does not remember anything until about. 3 a.m. tho following day, when ho recovered consciousness, and found himself lying in a ditch unable to move. Almond remained in the ditch all that day, the snow falling heavily at times. He shouted until he gave up all hopes of being lound alive. At six that evening he was descried by a passer-by. He is recovering slowly. The contractors for the Clinton section aav they are proceeding at the rate of a mile •

week, and if the weather holds good, will have no difficulty in completing within eight W Truson, steward of the William Davie, who attempted suicide, has been released on giving securities to keep the peace for a year. Dr. Ooughtroy, who is attending the girl Hamilton, writes to the papers that the state in which he found her, and her strong statements against her mistress, pointed to its being a proper case to bring before the police, and there his duty ended. On Monday he was sent for, being told that she was dying. That night she rallied, but her progress since has been fluctuating, and he regards her condition as critical. It was never insinuated by the girl that she was starved. Her complaint was being greatly over-worked, seeing how ill she was with chronic wasting disease. The case is to be brought under the notice of the Minister of Justice. A Tapanui telegram in the “Star asserts that the local bodies have frequently brought under the notice of the Government that live miles of line will only benefit a few runholders, and the construction of it was unauthorised by Parliament, bub had been snubbed for their pains.