BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

West Coast Times, Issue 589, 14 August 1867, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

( fbom ovh own cobbespondent.) Ohbistchttech, Tuesday, 3.13 p.m. A. meeting to petition the General Assembly for Separation was held at Timaru last night, in consequence of the rejection of the Local Government Bill. The news from Auckland says little about the Kueranga diggings. Mr Mackay, Commissioner, and about 140 people aie on the ground. It is supposed to turn out a good poor man's diggings. Hostile interference by the natives is threatened.

We understand that Mr Button delivered a lecture last evening on the subject of electricity, at the Presbjterian Church, the proceeds being devoted to the church funds. The adjourned iheeting of the Separation Loague, for the purpose of electing five additional mombers of the Council and other business, takes place this ovening, at the Empire Hotel, at eight o'clock prompt. The Otago papers contain an account of a serious accident, which might have been attended with fatal consequences, which happened to one of Cobb's coaches on the Tokomariro road. The coach was proceeding down one of the deep sidlings when one of the leaders took fright. After a narrow escape from being turned over the precipice, the coach was, by the dexterity of the driver, capsized on the hill side, and the accident resulted only in the fracture of the leg of Mr Hislop, thp Inspeotop of PuWio SoUoola, wj ottyp awfetg Mwk*