TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1247, 16 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER press association.) WELLINGTON. April 16. The body of Devereux, one the men lost in the Wairarapa Lake, was found yesterday. It is expected that the others will be found to-day, as a boat was found anchored by means of one of the guns getting caught in one of its chains. DUNEDIN. April 15. Last night a boy named Edward Houghton, who had jumped on to a tram car unobserved, fell while getting from one car to another, and the wheels passed over his legs. He died in the hospital this morning. April IG. At a fire which destroyed Gorman's Hotel, at Kirtleburn, L 220 in money was lost. CHRISTCHURCH. April 15. The Shipping Company has received advises of the arrival At London" of the Waimea, from Napier, all well. April 16.

The General Synod of the Church of England, yesterday, after considerable discussion, resolved with referencp to Archdeacon Harper's motion re alteration in the Burial Service, to wait until the solution of the question had been arrived at by the Church in England. Nominations for the New Zealand Grand National Steeplecnases close at Christchurch on April 24. The Civil Service Commissioners held their first sitting yesterday, and examined Mr. Back, General Manager of Railways, and Mr. Carrow, the Stores Manager. GRAHAMSTOWN. April 16. The Star states that it may not be generally known that the expenses of the Lincolnshire delegates was borne by this Colony and will amount to LIOOO. To thi» the Star objects. The County Council will shortly push the Ohinemuri road through Tukukino's territory in a day or so. Great influence will be brought to bear re the i ail way. A fatal accident occurred this morning t<> a man named Jajues Syverecr. He was engaged in packing a log of three tons when tlirs support g-we v.-ay and killed him instantaneously. He was working in the Big Pumping Association Yard. HOKITIKA. April 15.

Some six or seven shafts have bottomed on good payable gold at a new rush at the Forks, Okarito. The ground is proved about 400 feet in breadth, and if others bottom who are sinking on the same line, it is thought that a considerable rush will shortly set in.

TIMABXT. April 15. Settlers along the railway are complaining bitterly of destruction to live stock by trains, owing to the line being unrenced. Valu££ble*horses were killed near Temuka this morning by'the train, and hardly,a day passes but some animal is* crushed on the line. i : ; / • INYERCABGILL. - April 15: . Arthur Cox, a lad j wd3 to-day committed for trialj on a charge that he did on Easter I Monday feloniously kill and siay Robert Curtis. • -