TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 439, 24 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

i'fkom Tilt: PliEss agency.) WELLINGTON. September 22. The Telegraph Department have received a communication from Adelaide ro the tlicet that the Port Darwin line is interrupted beyond D-llan, but parties have been s.:ut out to repair it. A sham shock of earthquake was felt here at 4.40 this afternoon. Mrs. Mary Aim Trucimm and her daughter, Mary Leonard Mudgway, were brought up at the P.M. Court to-day. charged with child-murder. A great deal of evidence was taken. The Court was crowded tlm whole time. A chemist deposed to the girl's eldest sister asking him for medicine to procure abortion for her sister, who she said had been outraged. He refused. Another sister I.emght some quicklime from him to cover a el.Tg, she said. He forgot to tell her to put "water upon it, hence the body was well preserved when found in Trueinan's shed. The mother and daughter were committeel for trial.

September 24. A series of Catholic Mission services were commenced yesterday at St. Mary's, by the Itev. Father Heuneberry, a missionary who has been conducting the mission servie-s for the past twenty-five years in California ami ou the Paeitic coast. T.iere are t'.ree services and sermons daily, and every Catholic in Wellington is' expected to attend without fail at feast twice daily. Plenary indulgences are granted uinler certain conditions, such as for regular attendance at the mission servxes, receiving communion, Holy Eucharist, &c. The mission will last" more than a week. No collections are made. At every service so far, the church has been densely crowded, many persons coming very long distances. The Government have received advices !-y cable that the Zealaiidia left San Francisco on the 12th inst., with the London mails of the 23rd August, due at Auckland on the sth October. The City of San Francisco arrived on the 19th inst. with the New Zealand August mail. *_ —. LYTTELTON. September 22. Sailed—New Zealand Snipping C .'s ship Waikato, for London, with 30 passengers, and a cargo valued at L 130,000.