TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 30, 18 June 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH.] [PEB ?KES3 ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Juno 16. A gas explosion took place in the Glasgow Pie- house yesterday, and about £50 worth of damage was done. A young man named Wilson, was badly burned. A pugilistic encounter took place at the meeting of tha St. Kilda Borough Council last night, between Auditor . Eager and Councillor Halligan, A ! number of ratepayers formed a ring and acted the part of lookers on, until both combatants were severely pun* j ished, whea the fight was stopped Naheb,. May 14. j In the coarse of a civil action, 1 Writer v. Schulty, for malicious prose* 1 cution, Justice Bicbmond in aliusion to the evidence regarding the evening ' spree by*l;he parties in various public houses, said no doubt there was a 1 ludicrous side to the subject of the disclosures, bat a very different aspect lies not far off. He was shocked at the picture of colonial life wkich the facts present. "I do not speak he said as a teetotaller or Good Templar, but as a Judge of the Supreme Court. lam occupied day ■ after day on criminal cases caused almost entirely through drunkenness. Three-fou-rtha of our business on the criminal side, and a great many on the civil are directly attributable to drink, and I am saddened on reflecting what this state of society discloses." Auckland, May 14; The schooner, Samoa, from Fi|i, brings intelligence of the drowning of Allen Baillie, formerly Warden at the Thames, off the Island of Mokogai. He had purchased the schooner Beatrice, and left Levuka fos Mobogai when a squall struck her she carreened over and sank. Baillie and two. Sandwick men clung to the scuttle and were washed about. The natives tried to sustain Baillie, but ha became exhausted, released his hold, bade the natives good-bye, and sank. A concert is being got up in. . aid. of his family.