TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 725, 6 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

LAWRENCE. August 5. There has been a snow storm bore, such as was !:eyer before known. Tho Blue Spur claims all knocked oii' work. The morning train to Dmiedin stuck in ten-feet snow-drift, and at the Round Hill tunnel traffic was suspended. <e August o>. Owing to the heavy fall of snow, all communication between Beeffcon and here has been stopped for the last four days. It is still snowing heavily. IJALOLUTHA, August .!•. The coach could not face the storm today, and therefore did not go to Clinton. The passengers from Bnnedin had to stop here. The storm and snow are still increasing. HOKITIKA. August 5. The weather of late has been frightful, snow, hail, rain, and wind being experienced alternately for m;;ny days, ■j/he phristohuroh coach, due on Saturday, has not yet arrived. The advocates for a southern line of railway are getting up a petition to the Legislature. Many favour a more direct route with the East Coast.

j CHRTSTCHUPvCH. I August ~>. | Snow fell for two or three hours to-day. | T!k- weather is now fine, but very cold. The Chamber of Commerce Committee I held a meeting to-day, to consider the j Question of railway communication with [ the West Coast. It was decided to collect all possible information on the subject, and then call a general meeting of niembers to discuss \t. There was a curious case in the Magistrate's Court to-day. A man named Johnson charged John Dempsey and William Hart with robbing him of a watch ; but the police, being led by the peculiar circumstances to search Johnson's I house, found the watch secreted under j the pillow of the bed. It transpired that ] Demp3ey and Hart had seen John3on' steal a tumbler from the Garrick Hotel, j and Johnson, to be first in the field in-

: vented the tale about their robbing him ;on his way home. .1 ./hnson was senteuced to three mom'n ;'oi- sealing the tumbler, j the Beiii:;i i.xpiessing regret that the law did not ailow them -to pass a heavier sentence. ..,'-...': : ——-—•- x ; WELLINGTON. August s': A piece of land in Willis-street, 60ft. by 100 ft., adjoining the Empire Hotel, and formerly occunied-as Turnbull's store, was sold by auction this afternoon, and was purchased by Mr. Thomson, of Thomson and Shannon, for L 134 per foot. NEW PLYMOUTH. August ~>. The Herald authoritatively contradicts a rumor which has appeared in the Wellington papers relative to Sir .1. Coodi-V. report being against the feasibility «■ r ' constructing a harbor at New Plymouth. There was a fearful gale blowing yesterday.