SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1856, 12 September 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Auitralian Telegraph Press Agoncy.)

Wellington, Friday, 5.1 p.m.

A General Government Gazette of the 10th, states that Mr Worker is appoiutod a Public Vaccinator for Albcrtland and Mangawai. The following Justices of the Peace .are appointedE. Adams, Arapao, Eaipara; T. Goates, Kaipara ; J. Oosgrave, G. Schwartz Kissliug, M. Seccombe, Whangarei; J. Wallace, Otahuhu. The resignation of the following Volunteer officers are accepted Hon. Lieut. L, Von Tempsky, No. 1 Company Auckland Grammar School Cadets; Hon. Sub-Lieut. T. Mackay, No. 2 Company; Hon. Sub-Lieut. T. D. Hannaford, No.l Company. Joseph Cochrane is appointed Receiver of Gold Eevenue at Coromandel. The following harbour-masters and pilots are appointed; —G.. C. Best, for the Port of Thames; Hannibal Marks, for Tauranga.—Captain Fairchil.d is shortly |to go home to purchase a suitable s> earner for the Colonial Government.-Mr Vogel leaves for the Manukau at midnight in the ( Luua,' which will remain for the' McGregor's' mail to bring it South. Chbistchitbch,'Friday. Mr flolleston' addressed his constituents for two hours last night. He much, regretted hearing of Mr Vogel leaving for England'at a time when his presence here was absolutely necessary. He pointed out that the contributions to the revenue of the colony by Canterbury and Otago nearly equalled the contributions of the rest of the colony. He considered Mr Vogel's threat of dissolution unconstitutional, and repeated the chief arguments used against the abolition resolutions, saying the time was inopportune, and the people should have been consulted. A unanimous vote of confidence was passed.

FATAL ACCIDKNT IN THE BUSH. I In our Thursday's impression we stated a bushman known by the name of Black Jack had been killed near Hikutaia by the dead limb of a tree having fallen upon him. On ireceiving information of the affair, Mrßullen sent Constable Grace to Hikutaia, and after'.making full inquiry, the constable had the body buried there. Deceased was named Edward Cox; he was a man of colour. He is supposed to have been twenty years in New Zealand; he has been three years at Hikutaia, and was about forty.five years of age. It appears that Mr Charles Bmney, and Mr Frederick McCaskill, with the deceased and two others, were engaged in the bush, about four miles from Hikutaia, felling saplings for tho purpose of making a stockyard. One of the men called to deceased to come arid help him with a tree, and deceased answered. Mr Mc (l askill, who was felling a tree, thought that deceased had left the place at which he was, and gave the last chop to the tree at which he was working, which fell in the direction of deceased, and knocked from another tree a dead limb. On looking after the tree which he had felled, Mr McCaskill saw the legs of deceased sticking up from the dense mass of supplejacks, aud it was then found that the dead limb had struck deceased on the crown of tlie head, fracturing his skull and breaking his neck. He was quite dead. Under the circumstances it was not considered necessary to hold an inquest.