TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 543, 8 July 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

TO THE “ MAIL." IMMENSE RAINFALL AND FLOODS. Christchurch, Wednesday. The total rainfall since Faiday was 1.84 inches, the heaviest being yesterday, when P32 inches fell. Owing to a change in the course of the river at Ashburton, the railway embankment has been seriously threatened. ALLEGED ABDUCTION. Nelson, Wednesday, News has been rccivcd from Collingwood of the trial, on the 3rd instant, of Lo Grand Campbell, schoolmaster of Lower Tabaka school, charged with abducting and detaining one of the elder female scholars, aged 14 years 9 months, and haying criminal intercourse. The case was dismissed. ANOTHER GOLD RUSH. Dunedin, Wednesday. Reports in reference to the gold discoveries between Hawca and Wanaka Lakes is confirmed. The gold is very coarse in quality. The whole available ground will be occupied within a few days.

GOLD DIOCOVBRY IN AUCKLAND. Auckland, Wednesday. A veay rich gold discovery is reported near .Matai Creek by two brothers, Martin and Thomas McDonnell. Seven reefs or leaders in sand were found, all containing gold. This is identical with the discovery in Matai Creek in 1852. Mersrs Ring then obtained rich specimens from Maitai Creek, but no payable reef has been discovered hitherto by companies started for prospecting in that vicinity. Farther driving in the reefs now found shows a strong body of stone 18in to 2ft wide, with gold intermixed. The claim is on property belonging to Mrs Mclntosh, from whom a lease has been secured.