Step) are Ik ing taken to establish an tfi!c>ent boating service at Oaraaru, by the amalgamation of the Oamaru Boating Com pany with a larger enterprise. A meeting for the furtherance ot; thcobject was to be held last evening,. :■«'

E. J. Cox,. the solicitor, who absconded from Auckkr.d, leaving large defalcation* be hind, has been brought before the W-eßington fi. M. Ccurt, and has been remanded for fnrthor evidence. Tbe " Advertiser," on Ffiday, lajs :—;When^ be heard on Wedoea d*y that a warrant bad been token oat ugainat hlra, he vol|mtiirJlf irarrendered himself to tt> 0 /,K>lice. We give a report of a meeting o£' n jß crcdlWa in Auckland, at which a letter f rom him was road, In which he stated that ' n c had

only taken away L*oo with him m VViien he was" scorched on Wedneo day afternoon, nothing waa fOt"Wd on Mm; and we believe that, through th'O advico of same persons with whom he vm ui'quainted hero, ho remitted the amount, deducing the cost cf his passago from Auckland,, to that place, to be appropriated to the liquidation^* some portion of his debts. He does not ap pear to have bad any BC';tlcd mode of escaped ironi here, and was so imlifioreni about being seen, that on Tuesday he paid a visit to Ms brother in the gaol. Ho w.is admitted to bail by the Resident Magistrate in sums of LICOO by himself, and LSOO each by two sureties. An accident, attendtd with rather ssrioiig. consequence?, occurred on Sunday evening about a mile from Onmaru, on the Duceditr rond. The " Oamaiu Times" says:—" A. pnrty of tiiree or four were leturningtotown in a trap drawn by one horse, and when opposite: Mr Jtexoy's paddock, the pin wh»cli hf.Us tlie trnce-bar gave way. The bar of course instantly fell to the horse's Ieg8» causing it to bolt furiously. All the inmates of the vehicle were thrownoourt r and after running for some distance the animal freed itself and came home to stable with its harness in pieces, at once aroiulng upprchc-nsions of Eomt-thing serious having taken place. We rejrrct to say tlwt Mrs Cole, wifo of the pot son who was driving, had lut left arm broken, and her fuce-cut and bruited. Tho injuriea tusuinel ty the others were slight. 