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Dunstan Times, Issue 1274, 30 July 1886, Page 2

The bodies of the man Cameron and the boy Hansen, who were buried by the sudden collapsing of a tunnel they were working in at the Kawarau Gorge, have been recovered, That ofjthe man was not much disfigured, hut the poor boy was terribly smashed up, indeedjjit was.isoarcely recognisable.

The whooping couch is stillj’very prevalent, indeed, we think there are more cases and of a more pronounced type than a month ago. A good few adults are attacked as well as children. Since writing the above we regret to learn that two little children have been cut off, and that others are in a critical seate.

It being very that any envelopes including either written letters or trade accounts, if open at the sides or with the flap turned inside, will pass through the post at Book Packet rates, that is for Id, the packet not to exceed 2oz We now take the opportunity of dispelling the delusion, such not being the case. According to the Postal Guide, published by the authority of the Postmaster General, it is the duty of all postmasters, wheiher he has suspicions or not, to occasionally open and examine Book Packets passing through their of the rules of She department has been made, to forward the packet lo its address, but to charge double the letter postage less the postage affixed. We are led liTmaka this explanation, as of lata wu have been mulcted in the postage that should have been paid by our corresp indents. We bavo to acknowledge wi hj thanks the receipt of several batches of Parliamentary Papers, including the Public Works Staierasnt, which is a formidable affair, and a voluminous report on the Bast and West Coast Railway, both accompanied by elaborate maps and litho etchings ; also several parcels of Bills, amoog-d wh eh is ij’ r Pyke’s Otago Central E ilwav Kx-eusion and Construction Bill. The chief features of this very excellent measure are similar and on the same tines as the E.ist and West oast Railway Act, viz., handing the line over for construcvicn to a company or syndicate, and paying for same m land a’ußg iti course.

An adj urneil meeting of creditors in tiro estate of T. J. Mites was held in the Courthouse, Palmerston, on Monday July 19 when the Deputy Cilicia! Assignee, Mr Arkinson, wh > presided, apologised for his absence ut last meeting, and explained that no had been absent from Camara for eleven or twelve days and having only retained on hriday he had not had an opportunity o* being present on Monday ttie 12th mat. Ho pointed on'; however that it was not necessary for the Deputy Official Assignee to he pieseat at the meeting of creditors in all cases us the Act provided that in the event of the Assignee or his Deputy being absent the creditors could appoint a Chairman un 1 proceed with the business It was unani raously agreed to recommend the debtors discharge on his undertaking to make’nn anaug-.-ineat with the Deputy Official Assignee to pay £1 p«r weak, in monthly instalments until all the creditors who had complied with the act had received 5s in the £. This is conditional on the debtor being reinstated.

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