SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 762, 20 September 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

li--:iCy : i OCr. WELLINGTON. September 20. The Waitaki High School Bill has passed its second reading in the Legislative Council, and its committal has been lixed for Wednesday.

September LJO. The Star oi' the Kast Company has crushed 2-30 ounces from 20U tons of stone. Messrs. Cargill, Gibbs, and Co.'s wool telegram says :—There is no change for bulk or wools, but increased animation is takin- ph.ee, ai-d {competition h more regular, Prices are "equal tc, the average oHaat aeries, The new passenger station is to extend from Stuart-street to J-tat-tray-streefc, and tiie goods stations are all to be southward from Kattray-street. This is a rnoditication of the Harbor Board's plan, and not of the conference plan. September 20. A few particulars of the Waikau murder have reached here, and are as follow :—The prisoner was engaged in Jnlj' to Mr. Anderson, of Wyndham, for a year, but he was so lazy that he got a notice of dismissal aite f hg r,ad been there a fortnight. 'This indolence, and his unfounded jealousy, led his wife to express the wish that ha would die, On M'Rae's Station, where he went about the middle of August, the prisoner's conduct was so unsatisfactory that he soon got notice to quit. After committing the murder the prisoner put the body of his victim under the table and covered it with clothes. The room presented sign* of r. i-ei'co having taken place,

TIMAPwU. September 20. Messrs. Allan and Stumbles succeeded in getting the brigantino Lapwing, which was wrecked recently, oft' the beach last evening. The steamer Koputai is expected here to-day to tow the Lapwing to Port Chalmers, where her injuries, which are not nearly so serious aa was anticipated, will be repaired!