TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(P'ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. October 28. A lad named Batkin met with a serious accident at the College grounds yesterday. He was playing with a heavy roller, when he slipped, and the roller passed over his head and shoulders, breaking one arm and fracturing his skull. The boy is in a precarious state. DUKEDIN. October 27. At the inquiry held on the human remains foujul m the bush at near Catlin's River, they were identified as those of Robert Grey, who was missed in May, 1876. Grey was employed at Mr. Robert Anderson's sawmill. CHRISTCHURCH. October 27. Michael Murphy and James Watt wore both committed for trial to-day on the perjury charge arising out of proceedings in the Supreme Court against Murphy's brother. Bail was refused, despite the strenuous efforts of counsel. October 28. An old resident has promised L2OO towards a peal of bells at Kaiapoi. Inspector Buckley, being ordered from Kaiapoi to Invercargill, was entertained at the Kaiapoi Hotel yesterday. Great regret was expressed at his removal. The number of' unemployed who were put on to the railway works some time ago by the Government is rapidly decreasing. The men are finding work elsewhere. AUCKLAND. October 27. A party of 35 Arnied Constabulary, under Captain Cope, are ordered to leave Cambridge for road making on the Rotorua road. At 8 p.m. a lad at the Naval Training School at Kohimarama fell from a ladder, breaking his forearm and receiving contusion of the brain. He is now recovering. October 28. The newly-formed Civil Service Cricket I Club numbers eighty members. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association have erected a spacious new building. It is reported that the Government will shortly remove all proclamations from land purchases which they do not intend to complete, including Patetere. It is said that the Government mean to withdraw from all negotiations in the Arawa district, except Te Puke (which has been completed), Wait&hgne (40,000 acres), and two others, aggregating (30,000 acres. The whole area of laud under negotiation in the Arawa district is estimated at a million and a half on which Government have made advances. GRAHAM S TOWN. October 28. The yield from 931bs of stone from the new rpef at Te Aroha was 2dwts of retorted gold, Apother parcel of stone showing gold, and obtained from a different part of the district, has been lodged with the Warden to-day. There are not more than 30 men on the new field, and little interest is taken in the eubject.