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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 375, 16 July 1903, Page 5

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[by wraE,] (From our own Uorresn.j.: w :r.) Wednesday, 8 p.m. LaVst advice from Rom s states rh it the °f ''■ l, ilßl ve Stffcfc S a h ;i ndoue 1. The Pope has wasted. He has loag periods of rucocciousness and i is breathing is hourly becoming much worde. No trace of Osmond has yet heen fouod The inquest on the girl Campbell will be resumed to-morrow. Yesterday aftern on the traio to Ida Vallny was unable to proceed turther than Hyde, owing to snowdrifts between Hyde and Capburn. The Railway Department notify that the trains will be unable to proceed beyond Hyde till further notice. " large gang of men were employed e?e iri >g the snow off the line, but the t s< wis beyond them. u. -f.. au.r train to Timaru from ?>itiia \tssterday, with 12 passengers, was suowed up at CricklewooJ. Blanket' and food was sent up by the D pirtrueti', aud it was expected the tr-tiu would reach Timaru sometime tSH morning. \ man bamed Fiid iys m has died at A-'»hurton from exposure experience.! ou Fa lay night, while attempting to c» oss the river. ' The Address-in-Reply debate is still proceeliog. The Fin uiciai Statement ie> expected to be brought down at the end of next week. \ movement is on foot to hold an Intercolonial Exhibition near Ohristchurcb, for which £IO,OOO will appealon the Estimates. Another death from Suiall-pox has occurred in Lauuceston. The bodies of a woman named Smith and her two children have been found at Windeyer, near New South Wales, greatly decomposed.