TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 314, 26 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondents.] H ♦ —■ Waimate, April 26, B THE LIBEL CASE. ■ The hearing of the libel case, Heed Cuming, took place to-day. After heaH ing the evidence, which was the same H that produced in the case of Reid H Sherrin, the Magistrate committed JIH Cuming for trial at the next sittings H the Supreme Court, bail being allowedhimself L2OO, and two sureties LIOO eacl Dunedin, April 26. HOME SHIPS. News has been received of the arrivj at London on the 23rd, of the Mataun Elizabeth Graham, and Timaru. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY. The National Insurance Company profits for the past half year amounted ti £23,571, of which sum £15,000 have been carried to the reinsurance fund, and! dividend of 10 per cent., with a bonus oi sixpence per share declared. DISAPPOINTMENT. The people of Milton had made great preparations to receive the Governor, who promised to stay there a quarter of at hour, instead of which, to the Miltonians' chagrin, the train dashed past the statior at the rate of thirty miles an hour. RAILWAY COLLISION. A collision occurred on the railway line yesterday evening at Milton, one of the trains being knocked off the line, but no serious damage done. THE TEREMAKAU RUSH. A new goldfield is being rapidly developed at the North Teremakau, which is likely to rival the Kumara. The Star's correspondent at Uokitika says that the latest accounts are very exciting, and that hundreds are leaving the Kumara for the new field. The prospects obtained are half an ounce to the load.