LATEST NEWS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 372, 25 June 1903, Page 5

LATEST NEWS.

_ Jby wibk,] ' \From our own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday, 8 p.m. Two fatalities occurred on the railways to-day. George Guy ton, a young * man living at Burke's, while coming to work by this morning's train from Port, jumped off the train at Pelichet B*v station before it stopped. He dipped and fell under a carriage and bis right leg was crushed to» jelly. He was i amoved at once to the hospital, but died this afternoon. —Alexander Russell, an expressman, while enfaged taking delivery of goods at the 0 iraaru railway station tins morning, was crushed between two trucks. Death was instantaneous. Dr Gibb has accepted the call to St. John's, Wellington. First Church becomes vacant about the second Smdayin July. The Premier intends holding the portfolio of Education vacant till the Department is put in better order. He stales that there will be no re-con-struction of the Ministry till after the coining session. Owing to the outbreak of small pox in Tasmania, strict precautions are being taken by all the States and New Zealand", Consternation prevails over the fact that 15 persons were discharged from the Launceston Hospital since the sth inst., who suffered from what is now known to have been •mall pox. There is a suspicious case At Auckland. Owing to the sudden giving out of the water supply at Broken Hill, 5000 men have been thrown out of work. Water is being brought from South Australia by train. The rain-making experiments have so far proved a failure.

Severe weather is reported from the North Island. Heavy rain is falling here to-night.