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Evening Post, Issue 98, 2 June 1865, Page 2

The special general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce took place yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, for the consideration of the Hon. the Attorney-General's letter on the Debtor* and Creditors Act, when the following gentleman were present:— C. J. Pharazyn, Esq , Chairman ; Edward Pearce, Esq., Deputy Chairman ; Messrs. Bethune, Crawford, Dransfield, Hunter, Krull, Moore,

Rhodes, Stokes, Taylor. Turnbull, Vennell, and Woodward. The minutes of the last general meeting having been read by the Secretary, were confirmed by the Chairman. Tl-ie following resolution was then u'itced before the moetin^ by Mr. Woo 'ward, and seconded by Mr. Hunter :— '¦ That the question of ihe Hon. tho Attorney Gtner.il, a-.d ihe answer given thereto by the Lytteltun Chamber of Commerce, be printed for the use of members of this Chamber j and that this meeting stand adjourned till the 1 5th instant, with ihe view of enabling members to decide whether they would be prepared to adopt the answers already given, or whether they wnuld propose any modification in them, and, it so, i-f what nature those modifications should be." The Otago Times of the 30th ult. says : — "Trade han commenced this week witho t much apparent improvement, and all hough some amount of b'isinc-ss has been done through the day by auction, yet private sales have not been many nor large. Flour has a tendency to become easier, but in other goods no change in value has taken place." A fatal accident occurred on the 29th inst, at the Planet Saw Mills, Cumberland street, Dunediu, by which a man named Frederick Aguslus Allen lost his life. It appears that the men in the mills were at their work as usual, about pnlf-past one o'clock, and the deceased was employed cutting laths by a circular saw. A boy was stationed at the opposite side of the platform, and it was hi--duty, as the deceased directed the hubs a?uinst the saw, to seize the ends of the piece of wood being cut, and draw them towards him. A large quantity of laths had been sawn in this manner, and one of the pieces was within three inches of being cut through, when, it is supposed that the deceased, instead of keeping his hand on the side of it, until entirely divided, trusted to the boy pulling it onward, and stooped to pick up another | piece of wood. From some cause the boy was unable to hold the wood to the saw, and in a moment it was lifted on to the upper edge of it and dashed in the fnce of the deceased, who was in the act of raUing himself with a fresh piice of wood in his hand. He was se n to fall, and several of the workmen ran to his assistance, but were horrified to find that he had been struck on the leit temple, ihe skull smashed, and the brains protruding. He Wiis carefully raised and medical assistance sent for, but the unfortunate man died in five minutes after he had received the blow. Dr. Crawford arrived in a few minutes after the accident, but his efforts were unavailing. A correspondent at Caversham, writing to the Otngo Times, says, that being awake early on Saturday morning, he felt a " quick but slight shaking " of his bed ; that he w:is satisfied that the motion was caused by an earthquake; and that there followed "another shock mu'h more severe, causin<i a i quick vibration of the bed, and shaking ilii* (stone) house, causing ajingling of doors and disl c*." lie also noticed that there was no noise, and not the least wind at the time. Tiie shook was distinctly felt at Port Chalmers by more than one person. Mr. Murray, Bhipping master, described on Saturday i morning that, at about half past four a m., lig felt big dwelling-house rlis inefcly vibrate, and the vibration was of such a reculiar character that it at < nee occurred to him that it must have been caused by an uanhqii.tke. The shook was not se?ere, i>ut quite distinct from any commotion which might be paused by high wind < r a passing object outside. From various other quarters we have received confirmatory accounts of the vibralmy movement t f the earth which occurred on Saturday morn in?.