TELEGRAMS.
'■- ■ ■ ■■. ♦ —■ CHRISTCHURCH. August 7. A very influential!}' signed requisition lias been presented ro the Mayor, asking him to convene a public ..meeting for the purpose of discussing the question of urging upon the General Government the desirability of opening up railway com-
mmiication between Canterbury and the West Coast with the least possible delay. .: ■'"'*' August G.'. ?j t After.;days of argiimeht and-evidence,' j/ffie t§-day gave judgment in the Waikari block' j case,' excluding the sons of Hbrai Matii|and Wi Taipara from' in the-sanie. - ' Sv}- ,".•"'> ." '■■.■'— •',- "W \kMfton. -. ' l: ■ -;.,; August 6v "■"'" Three feet of snow fell last night, being the heaviest fall ever witnessed here. Iris still snowing, and there is no appearance of a change. A miner named William Leonard was] killed in his tent, near the Victoria Mine, Murray Creek, this morning, by a tree falling on him. "'
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 726, 7 August 1878, Page 2
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138TELEGRAMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 726, 7 August 1878, Page 2
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