TELEGRAPHIC.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 306, 28 April 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

fFrom tho Daily South-ebn Choss). Lyttelton, Saturday. The Ocean Mail sailed for London. One of the pilot men had a narrow escape from drowning while trying to heaTe up the boat whilst the vessel wns nnder full sail. He missed his hold and fell overboard, but on coming up to the surface he managed to oatclv hold of one of the fenders. The boat's painter was cast off and the man rescued. Mi* Carpenter, a Customs officer, fell down tho hold of the ship Portland and got a severo scalp wound and other bruises. The Deep Sea Filling Company is a failure. The Canterbury Gwernment intend during the grain seasou to run trains up to- midnight. Nelson, Saturday. Yatterina, Calumny, and Kakapo have been accepted for the Jockey Club Handicap, to be run on Wednesday. Castaway, Castinet, Purawhenua, and Dead Shot paid the forfeit. New Plymouth, Saturday. The census returns hare been published, and shew an increase in population since 1871 of 1000. It is reported that Whitcorabe, Provincial Secretary, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands-. No bottle* licenses have been granted in this district. Dunedin Saturday. The Guard law published a letter commenting strongly on the order made by Judge Chapman, directing the officer in charge of the telegraph department to place all telegrams at the disposal of the plaintiff in the case brought by Maea»sey, barrister, against the proprietor of the Evening Star, and asserted that the order conferred an unfair advantage on Macassey, who was also enabled to get the mass of the defendant's case beforehand. Macassey, solicitor, has lent to the Guardian Company directors, stating that if they do not cause enquiry to be made into the unprecedented course pursued, a rule nisi will be moved at the next- fitting to attach the company for contempt of Court in permitting the publication of unbridlod comment upon a matter which is sub judice. James Melntos-h, late a member of an Oamaru mercantile firm, was brought up at the Supreme Court on a charge of forgery, in adding certain words to a lease after it bad been signed. After hearing the evidence for the prosecution, the jury intimated that they did not require to hear the defence and Drought in a verdict of not guilty.