SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
[from our own correspondent.] *. Dun; din, Thursday.
DEATH IN A CELL.
A man named Samuel Rnckey died in a police cell at Tapanui, whsre he. had been locked up for drunkenness. TAIERi COUNTY COUNCIL The Taieri County Council has been postponed for a month, for the purposa of considering the adoption of the Act. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. At an excavation at Maitland-street, a blast fired by a prisoner brought down 2,000 tons of stuff. It is thought that the ground was cracked, as fragments were carried long distances.- Two prisoners and two laborers were seriously hurt.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 225, 11 January 1877, Page 2
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