TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2607, 26 August 1878, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From our own Correspondent.)

COROMANDEL, thisjday. MINING. The Goodenough in driving on the lode got a fair show of gold. 'The progress got out some good stone from the new leader. ACCIDENT. An accident occurred to an engineer at the Tairua saw-mill. While oiling the engine he got his hand in the machinery and would have been drawn in completely had not his presence of mind saved him. While his hand was crushed under the machine with the other he managed to throw the belt off.

TRUSTEE PETITION. &SggF* In the R.M. Court, the magistrate delivered "judgment this morning toucnmg the election of the Coromandel Highway trustees. The allegation of Mr George McLeod, plaintiff, aud six electors was sustained, and the election declared void. Whangapoa.--Lizzie, loading. Mercury Bay.—Louise, sailed j Orpheus, loading. , , , ... A native was brought up for robbing Carinas' Hotel, and talcing from the till £16. He was sentenced to three weeks imprisonment.

GRAHAMSTOWN, this day,

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. A young shoemaker named Hurley fell from a horizontal bar on Saturday night, and injured bis spine so severely that he is not expected to live. THAMES VALLEY RAILWAY. A monster meeting takes place to-night to urge the construction of the Thames railway, connecting the East Coast- and Waikato, as a Government measure, out of Public Works' Loans. SUDDEN DEATH. An old man named Sorby was found dead in bed yesterday. The cause of death is supposed to be heart disease. EXCITEMENT AMONG TE AROHA

NATIVES.

There is tremendous excitemeut among the Te Aroha natives this morning, when Mackay paid them £3,000 being balance of money due them for Aroha block, aud also get 7,500 acres reserves.

TE AWAMUTU, this day.

THE RAILWAY TERMINUS. For the 'purpose of urging the Government to bring a railway terminus into_ the township a public was on the 24th inst. Sixty-four ratepapers were present. The adjacent districts were represented. _ It was resolved unanimously, '-That it is very desirable that the Railway Terminus be brought into the township of Te Awamutu instead of being located, as at present proposed, at a distance of four miles therefrom.' "That this meeting respectfully requests that the Government do send an engineer to inspect the locality, and report as to the most fitting position for the railway terminus, with a view to rendering the most accommodation to the public generally." The following gentlemen were appointed to communicate the resolution to the Government aud to Mr McMinn, and to supply such assistance and information as they may deem necessary: Messi-3 Parsons, Henderson, Grcsham, Kay, Westway, Rutherford, Roche, Storey, and Major Jackson.