SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, last night.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 8 April 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, last night.

The jary found Major Pitt guilty, and Judge Gillies itvficfced a fine of £50, defendant to be imprisoned till paid. Tha second charge was vrithdrawn.

Two Fatal AccidentsThis afternoon a man named Bailey while working on the reclamation works in Freeman's Bay was buried beneath * fall of earth, and died -within five minutwi of his extrication. About the same time-— 3 o'clock — a divev named Henry Siuglefcoa t

met death under exceptional dwtrew.ng drcumstanoes. He w« engaged to «- Line the bottom of the Bro.hck Castle, and went down in his diving di*a, which had been noticed to he shgntly leaking before he pat it On and w temporarily repaired. After being ; down fifteen minutes he gave the signal to haul up The party above weie unable to comply for aome minutea. When brought to the surface the helmet was detached, and the man found all but dead. Delay again occurred in getting the diess oft. When the doctors arrived life was extinct. It is beHaved that deceased suffered from disease of the heart. Arrangement* have heen made for tue transfer -to the Batik of New Zealand of the business of the W Banking and Commercial Company on terms which we understand are considered mutually sotisfactory, and we believe immediate steps wlttbe taken by ttie'foi-mer bank to nave the ti-ansfer coippleted.