TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5284, 2 March 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Friday. An accident occurred on the railway near Hamilton to-day. A train of waggons were being “braked” down the incline to the gravel pits, when they escaped from the control of the brakesman, and “took charge,” the result being that tea .waggons were more or less injured. One hundred pounds of dynamite were used in one charge for snagging the Thames River near Te Aroha, which has been deepened 4ft. The effect of the dynamite was to throw up the stones and water to a great height.

Timaru, Friday.

Mr. Goodall, Engineer for the Harbor Board, left this morning for Wellington to submit to the Commission plana and specifications of a 30ft. mole, at a cost of not, less than £20,000. [t is proposed to start at the point where Balfour commenced, the breakwater, a few years ago. It will be constructed.of two solid walls of concrete blocks, thirty tons each, the space to be filled with rubble, the walls to be an average thickness of 10ft. each. The mole will be 27ft. broad at the base,, 28ft. at top, and covered with solid monolithic concrete, sft. thick. It will be 13ft. above low water, and 6ft. above ordinary spting tide. Greatest depth at low water 14ft. The plan is similar to the one sent on by Panagathos (Goodall’s). Should the Commission approve of the plans, tenders will be called at once, the work then can commence in three months time. The engineer estimates he can finish it in six months from then. The Harbor Board rescinded the former resolution to get Sir John Codde here.

The Hon. E. W. Stafford has issued an address to the electors resigning his seat' for Timaru in the Assembly. A fracas:.occurred yesterday evening.’ ;A darkie named Oharisten Messiah leaving here by the Ashburton train was pounced upon by a storekeeper to whom he owed money. The storekeeper pounded him and then entered a trap and drove off followed by the darkie, who obtained a carving knife, .and just as he entered the shop of the storekeeper was collared by the police. . This afternoon at; a ■ full meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held to consider a report from the committee re the railway tariff between here and Lyttelton, the report was unanimously adopted, and it was resolved to request the 'Dunedin and Qamaru Chambers of Commerce and 1 Harbor Boards to co-operate with Timaru in, asking the, Government to have the tariff placed on an, equitable footing at once. ... Tapanol Friday. : Messrs'. Bastings and Blair are here to-day, arranging matters with respect to the Wai-pahe-Tapanui railway. Westport, Friday. At an inquest on the fire at Clarke’s Bink Hall the jury returned an open verdict. The cause of the fire is unknown. , ,