SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1346, 15 September 1877, Page 15

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents ) / / Nasbbv, September 9fch. John M. Ryan, a miner of St. Bathans, was drowned in the Manuherikia, near Bucks, on Friday night. The body has not been found yet. The horse which he was ndisg got to the land alive and safe.

Oamaku, September Bth. The monthly sitting of the District Court wa« held on Friday and Saturday, before Judge Harvey, who presided for Judge Ward, who was prevented by illness from attending. The man Earle, alias Clark, committed for trial for obtaining money by false pretences, was convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard iabonr. Mary Walker waa indicted for perjury in the course of the recent caae against her husband before the Resident Magistrate for sly-grog selling. A verdict of Not Guilty was returned. rThe Ploughing Match at Papakaio yesterday excited great interest, owing to the hatch for £20 between Allan and Clydesdale, local cracks. The result was— White (Taieri) first, Allan second. Rich third, and Clydesdale fourth.

Akeow, September 12th. At • meeting of the Central Railway Committee, held last night, it was resolved that the Committee place themselves in communication with the leading bodies on the south coast, bo as to secure the cooperation of Invercargill and Riverton, and others Interested, to have the line of railway completed at one from Kingston to Cromwell, as described in Mr Blair's report Instead of this line only opening up four thousand acres of land, as described in the report, it would open up forty thousand, while it would make the immense timber supplies of Southland available to all the northern and north-western % oldfields ; the benefits of which would warrant the immediate construction of this line, which is only fifty miles in length, passing through Crown lands all the way, and at easy gradients.