NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3477, 9 July 1880, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per united press association.] MAIL LEFT 'FRISCO. Auckland, July 8. Hie City of Sydney, with the London mails to 17th June, left San Francisco ou the 4th instant, one day before contract time. A STRANGE PROCEEDING. Wellington, July 8. A meeting of the creditors of Kobert Cooperwasbeldthisafternoon, when the bankruptcy proceedings were changed to a deed of arrangement, Cooper agreeing to pay 20s. in the£ in twelve mouths, he hating the power to manage his own estate, uo trustee being appointed. Great esciteinout prevailed at the

moetiner. A motion by Mr. Rees for the adjournment was lost. Cooper conducted his own case. ASSAULTING THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. At the Magistrate's Court this morn, ing", Mr. Robert Atkinson, formerly Customs officer at the Thames, and a well-known petitioner to the House of Representatives, was charged with as. sanlting Mr. McKellar, Collector of Customs hero, in the Custom-honse this morningf. The supposed cause of the assault is through some evidence given before a Select Committee, and with a Ti'ew of bringing the whole matter regarding the accused before the public. MINING ACCIDENT. Kumara, July 8. The action of the Government in instructing the -Engineer-in-Charge of the gold fields to afford what assistance was necessary to recover the bodies of the men buried in the Sludge Channel, meets with general approbation. At a meeting of raineis last night it was resolved to volunteer to tell off one man from every claim on the field to form shifts for the recovery of the bodies. Operations were commenced early this moruing, and will continue until the bodies are found. From the dangerous nature of the ground it will probably be a week before the workers can arrive at the spot whore the men are supposed to have been killed. The contractor's loss is estimated at £500 through the accident occurring, as it involves putting down a new shaft and the removal of all machinery.