TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4951, 3 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS’AGENCY.) O amaru, Friday, The breakdown ofithe-engine last evening at Waitaki resulted from the driver allowing the water supply to get too low,, and melting the lead stopper in the plug at the top of the fir*, box. The lead is placed on the plug for the purpose of providing against negligence in the driver allowing the water to get too low in the boiler. A wooden stopper would have an* swered temporarily, but it was not thought of. The driver in starting neglected to fill the boiler through fear of allowing the steam to get too low. The driver has been suspended. • Dunedin, Friday, i At a meeting of the Milton Pottery Com. pany this afternoon the balance sheet showed a loss of £538. It Was resolved to windup the company., . .

■ Twenty-two will probably play the English cricketers. , The committee has 1 already selected Millington and Nichols, of Oamarti; Downes, of Lawrence; and Everest, of Palmerston, Twenty-four others have been chosen to practise for the event. 1 .. . , .

, The Harbor; Board reyehue for the year ending 3lst December last was £14,594; expenditure, £7647. Their present liabilities for .work going on. amount to £15,865, besides the proposed dredging contractVof Mr.-Proudfoot, £89,250. . ' , -e.

’ - ■ Timabu, Friday. _ The train from; Oamaru, with 300 excurbroke down last evening at .South Waitaki, owing to the fire-plug coming out of the engine, -which was in bad order. Assistance was obtained from Oamaru, and the train reached Timaru- at eleven o’clock, the passengers haying: suffered severely. The down train • froin Timaru, full of excursionists, was also detained until the South train could pas#. Mr. Teschemaker, M.ELR. for Gladstone, addresses his constituents on Tuesday.’} ' Auckland, Friday. Curtin’s execution has been fixed fpf Tuesday. _ ■ " ’ T Wright’s report on the city accounts seriously impugns the efficiency of the city treasurer; '! “Aekxahdr-a-, Friday.- \ Twelve of Rewi’s men brought a European named Lanaulo down to- Te : Wheor* -yesterday., Lanaule, with Morgan,. , has ’ for; some time been residing at Tuhna; but their frequent ■visits to. other ..settlements have; aroused suspicions ; hence Rewi’s , removing them. Morgan was: here when R!ewi arrived at Tuhna, Morgan:also is not to return there. Lanaule expresses a determination to go hack. - - , A large meeting is gbing’ on, to-day at Kopna.’ Rewi and aU the principal'chiefs are present considering the Native* Minister's proposals at the late meeting with Manuhiri.. ' ! ’ New Plymouth,}Friday. - Major Atkinson took his departure. for Wellington by the steamer Wellington this morning. It was his intention to. have ’gone overland, but telegrams received necessitated his going by the quicker route.