Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 403, 28 October 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

(From our own Correspondent.) Roxburgh, October 27th. Great excitement was caused on Monday morning on hearing that Mr. E. Morrison, Town Clerk of Roxburgh, had committed suicide by hanging himself. The unfortunate man was found hanging from a rafter in the upper story of the house of Mr. M'Douall, who was the first to give the alarm and call in the police. When he was cut down life was found to be quite extinct. An inquest will be held on Wednesday afternoon. No cause can at present be given for the rash act. DuNKniN, October 27. The sailing of the Comet for the Palmer has been postponed for four days. The immigrants per the .Jessie ßeadman will be open for engagement to-morrow. An accident occurred on the Dunedin and Clutha railway a little distance beyond Kensington this morning. Four empty ballast trucks standing on the line were run into by the Green Island'B.3o train. Two trucks were thrown off the line by the collision, but no part of the Green Island train was thrown off. The passengers who sustained injury were : Charles Samson, who was much cut about the face, Holmes, clerk to Samson, was cut and bruised on ihe leg, Rutherford (clerk to M'Landress, Hepburn and C 0.,) was cut on the leg, Misa Thomson received a severe cut on the eye, and those who wore severely shaken were liritton (Master of the industrial School) Gibson, Pope, Baxter, and Scoullar. The accident is attributed to carelessness on the part of the foreman of the locomotive engaged at ballasting, who has since been discharged by the general manager. October 28. At a meeting of ministers of religion yesterday, the question" of Sunday funerals was discussed. It is understood that a Funeral Reform Association will be set on foot. By the ship Calypso, there arrived 30 Lincoln ranis, 10 Lincoln ewes, and one pure-bred bull, the whole being valued at £3,400. The Colonial Bank intend shortly to open a branch bank at Invercargill, under the management of Mr. Dalgleish. j Chbistchttrch, October 27th. At a meeting held in the Superintendent's office yesterday, an influential cpmmittee was appointed in connection with the establishment of the Female Refuge inDuuedin,