TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
[per press telegraph agency.J Wellington, March 11. The shore end of the second Cook Strait cable was spliced ydsterday. The rest' of the day was spent in 1 fr uitless' endeavors fb get the boat ashore with the end of the cable. Heavy rollers prevented the landing this morning. While endeavoring to land the cable, a boat capsized with seven men. One" man was drowned. The cable' is now being secured in the cable house at Lyell Bay. Christchurch, March 10. A letter from * the Minister of Justice has been received nete, stating that the Government will af once consider the law which prevents absentees : tieing" sued in the Magistrate's Courts, without the consent of their attorneys, and will take measures to mend it. Pooley, one of the English cricketers, arrived here this morning, from Dunedin, to answer a charge of assault on a man with < whom, he had a dispute about a bet.
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West Coast Times, Issue 2480, 12 March 1877, Page 2
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