BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1069, 23 May 1878, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBBESPONDBST.) Dunedin, This day, 11, am. Markets—Wheat ranges from 4a 3d to 4s 4d per bushel, and oats are wanted at 3s sd. Superior barley is worth 6s and good malting 5s 6d. Tliere was no meeting of the Waste Lands Beard yesterday, owing to the death of Mr Maitland's (the Commisssioner) son through a coac'i accident at Horse Kan<:e. Fourteen passangers were in the coach, William Goddard driving On d< scending thro i-h Trotter's Gorge a trace got loose and the horses bolted capsizing the coach over a steep bank. Charles Nichols, of Dalgety Nichols and Co., was killed on the spot, and Ernest Maitland died next morning. Nearly all the gers wei£ more or less injured. The most singular thing was the fact that thi- was the coach's last trip, as the railway was to be opened the next day. Mr David Miller was yesterday fined 20s and costs for assaulting Mr Denniston, the lawyer in the street They had a regular fight opposite the Shamrock HoteL Dr Soinerville has left for Inverrargill. The Suez mail left Melbourne for here yesterday. Mr Burns is about to resign his seat for Rosyln. A tire on Tuesday, burnt the residence of Mr J. W. Jago, Manager of the £ofiuvg S< t. The damage sustained was £ 000, of which £OOO was covered by insurance. At Timaru Coursing Meeting, Rett's Queen and Death beat Paterson's Spring and Now in the All Aged Stakes. The weat.ier will be bad for to-morrow's races, rain having fallen every day this week. Bide-a-wee and Blue Peter must proceed for the Birthday Handicap.