SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 471, 1 November 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.)

DUNEDIN,

October 31. Trains will be shortly run on the Northern line as far as Blueskin.

The expidtion shown by the Government in the matter of the Tapanui and Waipahi Railway is greatly commended. The Waste Lands Board to-day r - sei ved the required 45.000 acres, of which 14 000 are on Run 212, Herb rt'.s ; the balance are on Poynta-'s, Cameron's, and M'Kellar's leases, which expire in ISSI 2. The bulk of the country runs nearly parallel to, and about two miles distant from, the proposed line. Gnat eagerness is shown by expectant jurors to be excused from service in Proudfoot's case. The judge is besieged with applications to that (fleet. T:e panel comprised the names of t"'o of the Grand Jury wl.o found a true bill, and those of two ilt ad p rsons. One of the former was compelled to serve through two others being challenged. Mr. Reeves is foreman of the jury. The judge has refused to allow Inspector Mallard, who has, up to this stige, conducted the prosecution for the Crown, to remain in the Court, as he was a witness. Thereupon the prosecuting counsel objected to the presence of the prisoner's brother. Mr. Smith said that the service of the subpoena on Mr. David Proudfoot at the eleventh hour was a shallow device. The Court called upon the defending counsel to state if Inspector Mallard was subpoenaed bona ficle to call as a witness, or merely to get him out of Court. Mr. Chapman r. plied that his purpose was bona fide, though he would not pledge himself to call him. So far nothing new has transpired in the evidence, save that three witnesses swore positively that on the 9th, when accused made the offer of marriage to the prosecutrix's parents, he was sober.

The month's revenue is L 29,551. November 1.

Although the Court sits till late at night there is no chance of Proudfoot's cise finishing before to-morrow. Dr. Murphy was examined during the greater part of to-day. The National Insurance Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent., with a bonus of sixpence per share.

PORT CHALMERS,

November 1,

She steamers Hawea, from Lyttelton, and the Alhambra, from the Bluff, have arrived. The Albion Company's ship Dunedin, from London, with 36 passengers, 2000 tons of cargo, and 10 tons of powder, left London on the 30th July. Crossed the Equator on September 7, in lon. 29 W. Passed the Cape of Good Hope on Octo2. Had comparatively good winds and settled weather, and passed the Snares on October 30. Had light baffling winds djwn the coast, and made Otago Heads at 6 a.m. to-day.