TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5711, 19 July 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FEB PRESS AGENCY-.) Foxton, Friday. A serious accident occurred on the railway between Ear ere and Oroua bridge, on Wednesday night. The engine was thrown off the rails, and a truck and passenger carriage raised into the air. Fortunately they were not upset, or the consequences would have been very serious, as the line is very dangerous at the point where the accident occurred. The train was delayed for two hours. The cause of the mishap was some cattle straying on the line. A youth named James Hawkins, seventeen years of age, an orphan sent here from Wellington by the police, is supposed to have been drowned at Paiaki, up the Manawatu river, in a tiny shell canoe. The canoe was found some distance down the river. The boy has not been seen since. The police are searching for the body.

Auckland, Friday.

De Lias, proprietor of the Theatre Royal, obtained judgment against one of a party of five publicans in the vicinity of the theatre, who promised to pay him £1 a week each while he kept the theatre open. One who signed the agreement tried to get out of it, and the others made joint cause with him, but the Court upheld the agreement. The Herald attacks Mr. Macandrew’s proposal for a direct steam service, and also the conferring of titles on Fox and Stafford without consulting the Governnient of the colony. Three men, said to have been working on the night shift in the Waikato Company’s mine, ceased work to get some refreshment about six this morning, and were about to resume work in the mine, when the roof caved in. Joseph McMinn had his back broken by a great mass of coal, and died on the spot ; but Montgomery and another man escaped uninjured. McMinn was a most experienced miner, and was brother of the acting Magistrate. He was unmarried.

Wanganui, Friday.

Kereopa, a notorious ruffian trom Waitotara, who some little time ago threatened some of the settlers that if they came on a certain piece of land he would serve them in the same manner as Hiroki had served McLean, was brought before the Resident Magistrate. The case lasted two days. He was committed to take his trial at the Supreme Court to be held in Wanganui. Bail was allowed—himself in £IOOO, and two sureties in £IOOO ; but no bail being forthcoming, he was sent to gaol. Nelson, Friday.

Mr. Gully sends a magnificent collection of eight wo.ter-color paintings to the Sydney Exhibition. One, representing a winter sunset on Lake Wakatipu, is generally allowed to be his masterpiece ; the others are scenery on the Christchurch-llokitika-road, and one of Milford Sound.

Ada Exan, who was supposed to have died in a fit in the bush the other day, is found to have hung herself. This is proved by a mark on her throat and a broken rope found near her.

Oamabd, Friday.

The Hon. R. Campbell has sold his station, consisting of 33,000 acres freehold, 48,000 acres leasehold, and 40,000 sheep, for £IOO,OOO to Mr. John Douglas, of Mount Royal. Timaru, Friday. Nine long-sentenced prisoners from Timaru will be sent to Chrlstnhurch to-day. Detective Neil made a very clever arrest last evening of a man named Thomas Griffin, accused of stealing a gold watch and chain, valued at £2O, from a man named McAualand, in the Club Hotel. The stolen articles were found on Griffin when he was searched.

Shipping operations have been greatly retarded of late owing to continued rough seas. Bad weather experienced here during the last six weeks has been unequalled since the district; was settled, both as regards severity and protraction. Mr. Stout has expressed an opinion that the Harbor Board cannot legally lend to the Borough Council £25,000 for waterworks, as asked by the latter. The barque Renfrewshire’s patent windlass, to which she was riding, smashed in pieces this morning, although very little sea was on at the time. Captains Mills and Sutter went on board and examined it. The barque subsequently left for Port Chalmers to get it repaired, but if the wind is unfavorable she may go to Lyttelton. It would not have taken a week to send the windlass by steamer to Dunedin and have it repaired. Ashburton, Friday.

The ratepayers of the borough have decided by a large majority to borrow £ISOO for drainage and water supply. Christchurch, Friday.

Walkden Wood, remanded from Wellington for failing to support his wife, was remanded to Timaru, where there was an order for his wife’s maintenance. The prisoner was also charged, under the Debtors and Creditors Act, with being about to leave the colony, and was remanded to Timaru on this charge also. William Hall was to-day committed for trial for perjury. Dunedin, Friday.

Six declarations of insolvency were filed this week, the principal being Francis Crowder, master mariner of Port Chalmers ; debts, £1502 ; assets, £1406. The Cromwell Company crushed 6240 z. of gold from 480 tons of quartz. Port Chalmers, Friday.

Captain Alexander McKinnon, well-known as the former owner of the s.s. Albion, was found dead this morning near his residence. He is supposed to have fallen down and stunned himself, and then to have perished from the effects of cold and exposure.