SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 330, 15 May 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondents.]

Dunedin, May 14. NATIONAL INSURANCE COM-

PANY,

Part of the National Insurance Company's meeting was very stormy. At outset, Mr. Reeves complained of the insufficiency of the information contained in the balance-sheet, saying that shareholders at a distance could not satisfy themselves. Mr. Driver retired from the candiature for the directorship, because, though he had 5000 votes in his favour, the other three candidates by joining together and giving a block vote got 8000 each. This was denied by Mr. Oliver, another candidate, and the Chairman and Mr. Walter described it as a rotten, blackguard state of things. Mr. Leary wanted to retire from the candidature as auditor for the same reason, but permission was refused, and on going to the poll he was at the bottom of the list. Messrs. Ritchie, Oliver, and Ramsay were elected Directors.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. The ballast engine which went off the rails at Mosgiel on Saturday was being driven at the rate of twelve miles an hour. All the men riding on her and on the trucks in front of the engine were thrown under the falling mass, At the

inquest on the body of William ClarV, who was killed, it was stated that the Go. vernment inspector has frequently com. plained of the engine on account of its jumping propensities. It had previously gone off the line when being driven at three miles an hour. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider blaming the Government for supply, ing material in the shape of an engino and trucks to contractors quite unsuited for the fulfilling of the contract, an d un safe to those employed. A SAD CASE. An inquest was held at the Lunatic Asylum yesterday touching the death of a man named Bowers, who had been sent there from the Hospital as suffering from delirium tremens, when he was bad with typhus fever. Deceased was a resident at Burke's Brewery, and was received into the Dunedin Hospital a few days previously. After having undergone treatment there for four days he was, on tlio certificate of two medical men, sent to the Asylum as being insane. The day on which he was removed was a cold one, and the conveyance used was an open express. According to the evidence of Professor Macgregor, when the man arrived at the Asylum lie was in a dying state from typhoid fever. He lingered on for a couple of days and then expired. Con, siderable interest was taken in the case by the medical men of the city, and, exclusive of the Coroner, there were no less than seven of them present at the inquest yesterday, six of whom gave evidenceThe jury returned a verdict that deceased died from typhoid fever, and at first intimated their intention of adding a rider condemnatory of the carelessness shown in removing the deceased in an open express on so cold a day. SIR GEORGE GREY. A special in the Times says that, while it is untrue that Sir George Grey intends resigniug, he will not take a very active part in the proceedings this session. THE WEATHER. The weather has broken here. The Forbury Hat was covered with water, and several families had to remove. There were six inches of snow at Blackston Hill,