SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 858, 15 January 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(■KBH-M OCR «>\V"y IfoftUKi'FoMHlS'r.) WELLINGTON*. January 15. A slight accident occurred fast evening to tf»> train front tVatherston. It was travelling at the usual speed «tt>wr« a gradient *>rt the VWHington side of the Riruutaka. when it suddenly came into collision with a large branch of a tree. blown down by a furious gale. So damage was d<>tte beyond »mashimj the the brake of the engine. The train was delayed for an hour. DI7SEDUX. January 15. At the City Felice Court, Seymour, charged with larceny as a bailee, was discharged on grounds of insufficiency of evidence. The charge of forger}* was dis-

members were present, and Companions Ritchie, C. De L. Graham, and \V. Murray we installed as LIT. J's. NELSON. January 14. The Waimca County Council, after long discussion to-day, resolved to bring the whole of the Counties Act into operation. There were only two dissentients. TIMARU. January 14. A servant girl, named Mary Connor, aged about 18, hanged herself at Waitohi Flat yesterday. She was supposed to be insane.

I Some weeks ago a prisoner in Lyttelton [Gaol, named Morgan Harper, showed signs of insanity, and was removed to the Asylum, from whence he escaped, and the police hare since been searching for him. Yesterday a man was arrested here for being dnmfc and disorderly, and was leaving the Court, being fined ss, when Detective Ncill recognised him as Morgan Harper. The prisoner says he feigned lunacy in the gaol, and thus imposed on both the gaol authorities and the medical men. He will be sent to the Asylum, and from thence to Lyttleton.

INVERCARGILL. f January 14. i A dispute has arisen between the incumbent of St. John's (the Rev. W. P. i .Tanner) and the joint Committees of the I Hospital and Benevolent Institute regard- | ing the holding of a bazaar at Easter. It | would seem that both sides had arranged for the holding of a bazaar at that time, | and that arrangements had been made, I unknown to each other; also that both parties were in treaty for the same hall. The Rev. Mr. Janncr writes to the joint Committees ancnt the matter, appealing t«> them not to set up their bazaar against the one contemplated in connection with the Church of England. He goes on to say—-" I think it very objectionable that y<>ti should endeavor to obtain rooms that we have engaged, that you should seek for help that has been already promised to us. and that you should invite members of »thor communions to engage in an undertaking which has a feature of antagonism, though it carries the form of benevolence. The members of the Church of England on your Committee cannot be supposed to give preference to their own interests. It i*s from the members of other Churches that we must expect courteous treatment. The position is peculiar, and I should at once say that it is the most disagreeable and unjust transaction that I have observed in Invercargill, were it not that I am well aware- how many mistakes may be accounted for by ignorance. I wish to be very clear in expressing my opinion. Without saying anything unnecessarily unpleasant,! do not wish to allow the members of t!te Church of England to be placed in the disgraceful position of contending - for their interests, or rather for the interests of ptiblic worship, before a wondering public, but I find it to be my duty to be" careful in this young community notto give a license to what appears t" mo to be incivility and rudeness, on account of the unpleasantness of checking the benevolence of our citizens. Their benevolence will not be lessened, and the wants of the poor will not be neglected by our following the common rules of courteous behaviour." The Hon. Secretaries of the respective Committees have been instructed to reply, declt'nin-,' to po-tpoiie the date fixed for their bazaar.