TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 21 December 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON. December 20.

[ The papers concerning the case of Tuhi (condemned for the murder of Miss Pobie) have been transmitted to the Government and it is probable that the fate of Tuhi will be«decided at a meeting of the Executive Council to-morrow. DUNEDIN. December 20. The case Samuel Shaw v. Wm. White, which is of interest to farmers and other persons who have to do with reaping and binding machines, commenced at this morning's sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court. Plaintiff claims LIOO damages for loss of working bullocks whose death he alleges was caused by their swallowing pieces of wire which was in chaff supplied to him by defendant.

December 21,

At the City Court a boy named Sheehan was fined 40s and costs, or to suffer 14 days' imprisonment, . failing immediat payment thereof, for assaulting two Chinese.

A Miss Wilson was drowned at the Ocean Beach this afternoon. Mr. Kingston, the proprietor of the baths, who went in after her unsuccessfully, and tried to rescue her, was brought out insensible. There are 30 candidates for the nine senior scholarships offered by the Education Board, and over 50 for the junior scholarships.

CHBISTCHURCH. December 20.

A woman was opening a bottle of ginger beer the other day when the cork struck her eye, turning the ball completely, over in the socket. Loss of sight will probably be the result.

Tlie ; Lyttelton Dock is advancing to: completion. The floor and most of the sides are laid, and the -coffer dam at the entrance is being proceeded with rapidly. December 21.

The Artillery fired for the district prizes yesterday. The highest scorers were Sinclair, 68 ; j Duncan, 55 : and Hill, 55.

Ellen Anderson, while intoxicated, fell into the river last night and was drowned. A man named Day, a collector of bottles, was found dead in the street. During the present season the Acclimatisation Society have distributed 36,025 trout,

AUCKLAND. December 20. Arrived Oamaru, brigantine, from Oamaru. Owing to the late accident to Sinking Fund, he has been shot. TJMARU. December 2XAt the Supreme Court to-day, James Cunningham and James Gilchrist were indicted for larceny from a dwelling. Gilchrist was acquitted, and Cunningham was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. On receiving sentence he declared' he had been twice sentenced by the same judge innocently. He thanked his Honor, and said he hoped that Judge Johnstone would live to sentence him a third time, when it would be for something. Mr. R. Stansell, proprietor of the South Canterbury Times, has purchased the Timaru Evening Telegraph.

KELSON ' December 20. Mr. A. Harloy addressed the suburban electors at Richmond on Saturday night, and received a vote of thanks. He'declared himself a Radical, and spoke in favor of secular education, abolition of the Upper House, and elective Governor. He was against selling Crown lands, and looked on the institution of a colonial bank of issue as a means of liquidating our debt. ... GREYMOUTH. December 20. The yield from the United Alpine Company, Lyell, for the week was. 300ozs. amalgam,, from 160 tons quartz Kee p-i---t Company, Reef to.n, for ten days, 2390z. 15dwts. amalgam, from 240 tons quartz—top plates only..