SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 371, 2 July 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[from our owx correspondents.]! ♦ I

DUNEDIN. FATAL ACCIDENT. RAILWAY AG ITATION. RESULT OF PASSING A SPURIi) NOTE. CONFERENCE FAILURE. June; At Anderson's Ray, James Darraln killed by a fall of earth. At the railway agitation meeting \ at Cromwell on Saturday, resolut; were adopted unanimously favoring immediate, construction of a lino ft Cromwell to Queenstown, to open communication, rid Invcreargill, as i shortest way of connecting the disti with the seaboard, without reference the rival claims of any other port. The Criminal Sessions of the Supn. Court commenced to-day. There i nothing of special interest in the .1 ml; charger Mr. Stout's ii.jiplicat.ion fn special jury in the case, of against Mrs. Iteid, whose trial is lixwl the 12th, was granted. John Fergu and Thomas Williams, convicted last i sion of assault, were each sentened two months' imprisonment. Margaret Ryan and Jionora, Shut were arrested as aeeoini>liees in a i against Bridget Ryan for iil.iHiuloiiiii" child. A woman has been senloneril at Police Court to three months' iuipri ment for passing an imitation bank n being a business advertisement. Bench said that the issue of these n tended to crime.

Ferguson's iiinl Williams' sentences I efloct troin April 2nd last, so the nriso were discharged. No business lias yet been ilone :it County Cor.feronei', owing to the s: attendance. Present: Messrs. 1'; (Vincent) ; M'Neill, (Olntha) ; Roll; (Maniototo) ; Fulton, (Taien) ; Clu (Bruce) ; and Given, (Waikonaiti).