TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 884, 14 February 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(I'EK PIiKSS ASSOCIATION). DUXEDIN. February 13. Mrs. Marion Johston was to-day committed fur trial on a charge of perjury. Two sets of witnesses swore indirectly contrary ways, and the Bench decided to leave the judgment as to correctness to a higher Court. Accused was admitted to bail. She is a married woman. The circumstances of the case arc in connection with i!«c Ijit-or-Miss premises at Saddle Hill so often previously before tlio Court f«.r sly-grog and perjury cases. February 14. Mr. Conyers, accompanied by Messrs. fit-ant and" Armstrong, of the Railway Department, passed through Dunedin for his home in Christchurch by a special train at 11 o'clock this morning. The contractor is making rapid progress witii the sifeet tniimvjtys. The laying of rails is being prosecuted in the centre of the city. A second information for perjury laid by Reid, sly-grog seller, against Marion Johnston, the wife of a coal miner, who "ave evidence against him, was withdrawn this morning by Mr. Denniston, attorney for the prosecution. TIMARU. February 13. About 100 immigrants, ex Northern Monarch, were open for engagement today. All the single girls were engaged from L2O to L3O per annum, and the majority of the single men at 30s to 30s per week. NEW PLYMOUTH. February 13. The wind has revived the bush fires, and the town yesterday was dark with their smoke. A German settler at Inglewood has been burnt out by them, and Colonel Trimble's sawmills and other property narrowly escaped destruction. IXYERCARGILL. February 14. Mr. Conyers was able to proceed by special train from Gore this morning, at U o'clock, for Christchurch direct. He is so far recovered as to be able to talk business. AUCKLAND. February 14. A block of the city endowments, near the General Post Office, to be realised at LLSO4, for which the original lessees paid L 572. nave an increase to the Corporation of 1,1232. There was exported by the Australia 'itiOOoz. of gold from Thames goldfield. A breach of promise case is on the tapis. The venerable couple falling out before the knot was tied, the old gentleman was jilted at the last moment. The Rev. Jas. Buller's new work entitled "Forty Years in New Zealand" was published just as the mail left.