TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily Southern Cross)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 285, 10 March 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Dail y Southern Cross)

Thumes, Saturday. A Terj inirnoulou* escape from suffocation took pluco this morning at Ibe Caledonian mine. It appears that four men wero employed iii the No 3 level, when they b*ctinfle sensible of an influx of gas. They at onca ran to the slialt, and were making their way up the ladder to the No' 2 level, .90 feet higher, when Caughlej fell back into the shaft almost inseniiblc. HU mates, however, recovered him, and had terrible work m petting him up to the other level, at the ladder is a perpendicular one, and very awkward owing to the staging at various places. The cn3o of Annie Hamilton, widow of Harvey Hamilton, late of Hikutaia, was before the Ki-sident Migistru.o to-day, being a charge of selling nboiit three-quarter of u pound of powder diid caps to one Nicholts, u pjkehu-Muoii. The case is creating great excitement, as a poitiou of the public think that the police might have employed their tiltnts in other directions. The Sub-Inspector applied for a remand of seven days, and, in so doing, stated that he was sorry to prosecute, and then called tho attention of the Resident Magistrate to the remarks of the two local papers, which he considered preauinptuous before the case had been heard. Remanded for seven, days, *nd admitted to bail on her own recognizance. The p.s. Enterprise is detained until to-morrow, as there is a very heavy north-west gale blowing.

Coromandel, Saturday. A nice 'parcel of ipeciroens wis got to-day from the Harbour View ; also u parcel of vevf riub stone from the City of Auckland.

Tauranpa, Saturday. The »leanier Murray is expected here on Monday, Tho Town Hoard has dscided to drain the town iramedidiatoly. 'lhe grain market is briik. Wheat, 5a 6d. For splendid samples inoreased activity. In tho stock market Mr Boddel reports : — Milch cows, £6 to £10 ; two-year-olds, £4 to £6. There are nninerous enquiries for blocks of land in the district. A great number of tourists to the Lakes.