DUNEDIN.
February 3. A correspondent to the Times reports the discovery of a reef at Long Valley in the Serpentine district, the stone being thickly impregnated with gold. Barney Callon, of Galloway station, has been drowned while crossing the Manuheiikia. He had been drinking heavily. At a meeting of marine engineers last night it was decided that the proposed sliding scale-of the Union Company was unfair to the men, who will leave the vessels as soon as they can do so legally rather than submit to the proposed classification. At the inquest on Jeffries, who was killed at Guthrie and Larnach's yesterday, a verdict of accidental death was returned, with a rider attached, that when any belt requires alteration or removal it should not be done single-handed whilst the machinery is in motion, but two persons should be employed. {For continuation of news see fourth page.")
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2998, 3 February 1881, Page 3
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146DUNEDIN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2998, 3 February 1881, Page 3
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