TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 527, 9 January 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

([•'EH I'i'.ESS AGENCY.)

WELLINGTON.

* DUNEDIN.

AUCKLAND.

"-= $ NAPIER.

I^YERCARGILL,

January 8. Last evening the engine-house at the patent slip was nearly demolished by a singular accident. The Stella, which had been on the slip for repairs, was being lowered into the water, and when halfway down a tremendous crash was heard, and large pieces of the galvanised iron roof, followed by clouds of steam and smoke, were seen high in the air. The engineer's account is that he was standing between the two engines and about shutting off the steam, when, without any warning, the immense.fly-wheel, seventeen feet in diameter and of five tons weight, which was revolving with great rapidity, burst into fragments, some of the pieces of half a ton weight being driven between two and three hundred yards from the building, going through the roof and smashing the brick wall. Nothing was left of the wheel but the centre and the stumps of the arms. All the inside of the enginehouse is a complete wreck. The escape of the engineer is considered miraculous ; beyond being knocked down and sustaining a few cuts and bruises he was uninjured.

January 8. Dissatisfact'on is felt at the charges made for the Australian cricket march, the ground charge being fixed at 2j. e

January 8. Dr. Somei'ville tho evangelist, ami Mr. Charles Bright, free thought lecturer, arrived by the Australia. Mr. Bright gives three lectures here. Eleven clergymen of fhe Primitive Methodists connection arrived by the Tanpo to attend a district meeting. The Levy concerts are expected to commence here about the 14th, Stephen Marsett, elocutionist, reader, and humorist, appeared last night at the Choral Hall to a crowded house. At the meeting of the "Waste Lands Board to-day it was stated that three hundred applications had been received for confiscated land. At the Supreme Court, Patrick Carroll and Patrick O'Brien were sentenced to one month for robbery from James John Pagott in a brothel, and James Ellis and Margaret Carroll to pine months for the same pft'ence. James Mills, horse stealr ing, was acquitted. A true bill was returned against H. S. Meyers for fraudulent bankruptcy.

January S. A shock of earthquake was felt at 17 minutes after 6 this evening.

January 8. The Southland Coursing Club fixed the following dates for their meetings, viz., May Bth. 9th. 29th. and 80th ; June 18th, 26th, and 27tli —the latter open to members of any Coursing Club.