TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 303, 13 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OCR OttTt «?ORBKSTOXt>E>*T«.J D<l\srpj>% April 13. THE FISHHOOK CASE. "Pegasus," the-spirting correspondent of the Dunedin ffhtr, writing to that paper, is very severs on the stewards of the JS'orth Otago Tnrf Clttt>. He says : " Although a "tart proves to the stewards' satisfaction that it would pay him best to let his h»rse win, they hold him to be gßtlty became they cannot ascertain him to be gwtity. This is justice with a vengeance. Jf O'Brien has been guilty of a disgracafnt swindle, let him be punished, but do not let it be done in a hole-and-coraer ktshbii, and nil in a moment. In the annals of racing. Oaiuarti is not all purity, for at every meeting some fruitful protests and disqualifications have taken place, hut it is not every year a Dnnediu Cup winner can be dropped on." PURCHASE OF UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS. f. C. Neil!, Esq., has purchased the University Buildings for L2?,000. DROWNING. At Tokomairiro, a child named Jqhn Powley, was drowned by falling into an open drain.

WAIKOUAITI COUNCIL.

THE GAOL CHAPLAIN.

PRINCE OF WALES' VISIT TO THE COLONIES.

The Waikoaaiti County Council (by four to two) lia3 negatived the motion to declare Palmerston and Waiheno Ridings a new county.

It is understood that the Government have finally determined to dispense with the services of Mr. Torrance as Chaplain. He has received the usual compensation.

The Press in London (through a correspondent) confirms the statement regarding the Prince of Wales' intention to visit the Colonies. The correspondent says the Prince has received the full approval of the Cabinet, but he is not likely to start earlier than next autumn. » Wellington, April 13. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. A young man named Fovell met with a distressing] accident yesterday. He was wcrking at a hay and corn store, and whila biwy trussing hay, the machinery was set in motion and caught a rope, which entwined round the poor fellow's body, and drew him into the machinery. Both his arms were broken in several places, the bones protruding through tiie flesh, while the sinews were drawn out of the fingers.