TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 25 August 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEP- PRESS ASSOCIATION".) • DUNEDIN. August 25. The lock-jaw case reported yesterdayhas terminated fatally. .. CHRISTCHURCH. August 24 A young man named W. H. Izzon was drowned in the Broken River in the back country on Saturday. He was well known in town, having been landlord of the Brighton Hotel, August 25. A sailor named Joseph Ricca died suddenly of heart disease on board the ship Canoma in Lyttelton Harbor this morning. . i Twenty-five more of the unemployed have been sent up country to the railway works 10-day. TIMARU. August 25. During the storm on Saturday a Chinese gardener ha,d his apple-cart upset, and sustained serious injuries. Last eyenipg he apparently died, and this the poroner and polipe ipere abput to hqjd an

inquest, when a Chinaman announced that the dead man had suddenly regained life at 3 o'clock. Medical examination, since made, shows deceased to be partially paralysed, and in a hopeless state. The body had been laid out when the signs of returning vitality created consternation among the surrounding mourners. : INVERCARGILL. August 24. At a meeting at Riverton re the noncompletion of the. Orepuki railway, the following resolutions were carried "That this meeting regrets the Government have not seen fit to place a sum on the Estimates for "the completion of the Orepuki-railway, although the same was recommended by the Railway Commission and promised by the Government. This meeting strongly urge the Government to place a sum on the Supplementary Estimates for the completion of the line." In the case of Louis Schmoll, recently sentenced to two years for shooting at his wife, it will be recollected that the strong point in his favor was that the bullet could not be found. The wife has now found the bullet embedded in a feather bed. It is a Terry rifle bullet. Schmoll's son is in the Invercargill Cadets, which use carbines requiring bullets of that description.