TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1273, 6 May 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(PER press association.) DUNEDIN". May 5. As the last goods train from Clinton had got about half a mile on this side, of Waihola last evening the engine apparently struck something, and the train was stopped immediately. The guard on looking about found a man dead lying across the rails. A telegram was received in town this afternoon intimating that the body has since been identified as that of one James Bacon. It was removed to Waihola, where an inquest will be held in due course. An examination of the engine attached to the goods train, which followed the express, showed that there were marks of blood and brain upon it, so that the deceased must have been killed by this engine. The All-aged Stakes at Tolcomairiro coursing meeting were , divided by M'laren's Sly and Daniels' Luffra. May 6. At the City Court to-day, William Couzens was fined LlO and costs for allowing gambling in his licensed house. A firm, in town has received the following Mauritius tejegram :—" sugar market is unchanged. Tfyere is now a probability of a poor crop, and it will be very late." CHRISTCHURCH. May 5. In consequence of a secondary occurrence of diphtheria at the Lyttelton Orphanage, the medigal. ofljcer of* the institution, was led to a careful examination of the rooms in which the disease occurred, He had some flooring taken up, and at once found sufficient cause for the outbreak. The ground was sodden, giving out unhealthy and unpleasant odors. It had been imagined that from the very nature of the building there could not be any lodgment of water under the floors, and the dfscoyery tool? th§ Charitable Aid Board by surprise. Suph gantyary iip- ; provetperits as are deeded necessary will be immediately made,.

AUCKLAND.

May 5. By the epidemic amongst sheep in the I Waikato some owners are losing 30 a week. The gausp is undefined, Sir Qeorge Grey arrived Kawq.u this afternoon. " Commodore Wilson, of H.M.S. Wplverine, has returned to town from Waikato. He gtatgs that he has not received any cablegram announcing the safety of the Atalanta training ship. It appears that she was at one time a sailing vessel, and wa3 formerly on the Australian station, known as the Juno, being in commission from 1853 to 1858.