TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 13 August 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

DU^EDIif. August 12. Pilots Loudon and Paton have been dismissed for disobeying the orders of the Harbormaster. CHRISTCHURCH. August 12. A couple of men going to the Okarito rush on foot lost their way at Malvern, and one fell over a precipice 40 feet high. His mate managed to get round to the foot pf thp cliff ? and found him badly injured but alive. At the meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board to-day, the tender of Hawkins and Co. was accepted for the construction of a breastwork from the basg of the Gladstone pier to the screw pile jetty ; also, a jetty 130 ft. in length. August 13. It is proposed to found a Trotting Club in Christchurch.

The Lakes Station, situate on the south bank of the Hurunui, consisting of 20,000 aoreß and 8000 sheep, has been sold for about half of what it changed hands for four years ago. The lbel case Izett, editor of the Star v. the priprietors of the Echo, is fixed for August 23. This morning, a man named James Prideaux was found dead in the graving dock at Lyttelton. He had been drinking for some days, and had evidently climbed over the fence on the Governor's Bay Road and fallen over the cliff into the dock, breaking his neck. Thomas Daly was received into the Hospital to-day with a broken leg. He asserts that hp stuck up by a man at Itakaia, and, in jumping off his dray to defend himself, he fell under the wheel, and the man made off.

AUCKLAND. August 13. Duncan Livingston, the man who was injured by the train at Papakura railway station, is dead. The convict Curnow, sentenced to fifty lashes at the assizes, underwent twentyfive lashes. The flogging administered was very severe, and the man had to be assisted to gaol and to the hospital afterwards.

Great indignation has been caused in town by the publication of a telegram stating that Mr. Luster, manager of the Auckland telegraph office, is to be superseded by a man from. Blenheim, Ah opinion prevails that it is a gross piece of departmental favoritism, and a memorial protesting against it is being signpd by the leading citizens.