TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1104, 1 November 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. October 31. A very sudden death occurred at the National • Hotel this morning. A young man named Robert Sale, recently arrived from Kaikoura, retired to bed at 9 o'clock last night, after taking a drink supplied to him at his own request. When called for breakfast he was found dead. The cause of death will not be known until a post mortem examination is held. It is believed he has a wife in Dunedin. AUCKLAND. October 31. The notorious ship Minister of Marine was towed down the channel by the Glenelg, ostensibly bound for Newcastle, but ahe cleared for Guam. Tlie new

sailors engaged got advances in notes beyond the value of the trip to Newcastle. The ship is to remain in the channel until the new men are all on board. If this fails the men who are now in gaol will-be put on board, but this will not be done if men can be obtained. s While Constable M'Knight was bringing a lunatic named Glover in a trap to town, the driver by mistake .drove the vehicle over a precipice.; The lunatic was killed and the constable hurt, but the driver escaped. ESnS- ■ - ' CHRISTCHURCH. . October 31. The ship ivno tvslev Hall, 150 days out, is given up. She was a new iron vessel of 1750 tans, and has never been spoken. Her passenger list contains 25 families, numbering nearly 100 people. -Under-instructions from Mr. Conyers (Commissioner), the employes on the Middle Island railways have lately been subjected to a series of tests by means of cards of various colors, with the following results :—Of the whole number two and a half per cent, were unable to distinguish beyond black and white. On the Christchurch section 13 were partially colorblind out of 266 tried. On the Oamaru section there was only one who was colorblind out of 230 men experimented on. It is the intention of the Department to have all those employes who occupy the position of signalmen, and others who have to watch the approach of trains perfect at promptly distinguishing colors. Shearers are at a discount. The price has been dropped 5s a hundred, and applicants for work are much more numerous than the billets to be obtained. TIMARU. October 31. At the R.M. Court. Waimate, yesterday, Alfred Fisher, late proprietor of the Waitangi Tribune, was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, at Timaru, for an alleged libel on one Samuel Green, a farmer. The libel was contained in a letter written to the Tribune during the late election. A young man named Christian Arras was found dead in a paddock near Saltwater Creek to-day. A bullet wound was found in his left side, over the heart, while beside him was a single-barrelled gun. There is little doubt that he committed suicide, though no motive is known. He had over L3O in his possession at the time.