SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 316, 19 March 1875, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

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Dunedin. Friday, Bp.*rff"" Judge Chapman to-day granted u riew tria iu the . ease Macasscy v Bell _ ■ Mr' Norrie, M i, of Edmlmr-jb has'fits® appointed Koctor of the High Kchooi. He arrives bere next mail.

The reservation by the General Government of 66 OOli acres on the West Coast of this Province for purposes of public utility, excite surprise. _ : ' The final acceptances for the Qunedin Cup are : —Temploton, Castaway. Traitor, Atlas. Pertohe, Right Bower, Sprifcsail,- Tripolis, JSgaro, Hercules, aiid Earl Lyune . Judge Gillies was sworn iu Wellington. WAIKOUAITI. The following, the ' Herald reports, ara the names of the applicants for the vacancy caused by the the Itev. A. Da' sent:—The Revs. E. Graitger, formerly 6£ All Saints, Dunedin, now at Wellington j Leeson, of Port Chalmers; T: >tanley, of Dunedin; E. Williams, of Saseby; and £i "Wells. ■. . T l tfil A fearful accident (the 'G-iiardian. reports) occurred last Monday at the Railway Tunnel, Deborah Bay. It appears thai two men, named William Stephens and John M'Grath, were engaged in charging a hole in readiness for a blast, when, by some means, M'Grath let the fuse too low down in the hole, and the tamping was put over it before the mistake was discovered. On findingthis to be the case they proceeded, to withdraw the tamping and flood the hole, and afterwards commenced to bore the charge of powder out. While doing so with a jumper, the blast suddenly exploded, driving the unfortunate men into the tunnel. They were extricated as speedily as possible, and conveyed by relays of their fellow-workmen to the old Port Chalmers Hotel (a distance of between four and five miles), where their injuries were speedily attended to by Drs. Gregg and O'Donoghu'e. After examination it was found that Stephens's left band was com* pletely shattered, and his head and hack injured. The other unfortunate man, M'Grath, was still more seriously injured, the left clavicle fractured, and the left lung perforated, producing emphysema. Everything that could possibly>be done for the alleviation of the sufferers was attended to by the medical men present, and the Golden Age paddle-steamer conveyed them to Dunedin Hospital. Both Drs. Gregg and O'Donoghue, who accompanied tbe sufferers to town, stated it to l>e their decided opinion that M'Grath was not in a tit state for removal the slightest motion in his case being dangerous in the extreme. Every assistance was cordially rendered by Mr. Dodson, who offered a room in his house in which tbe unfortunate men might remain; Mi-. Boife, railway manager; Captain Pergusson. of the Harbor Steam Company, and others. Is or must the prompt manner in which Captain Patterson, of- the Golden Age, got steam, up, in order to convey the wounded men and medical practitioners to Dunedin, pass unnoticed The time occupied in the run from the Railway Pier, Port Chalmers, was about 45 minutes. •