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[PER UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, January 4. A young jockey named Todd, about 15 years old, was killed at Otaki on New Year's Eve He was engaged to rid* at the races on New Year's Day, but it is believed he got intoxicated the previous night and fell down in the yard attached to the Otaki Hotel, where he remained asleep. A cart coming in later in the 1 evening ran over his body, one of the . wheels passing over his chest, which was completely smashed. Death was in* i stantaneous. , This Day. At the Supreme Couit this morning the criminal calender was opened before Judge Richmond. In charging the grand jury, his Honour congratulated them oo the light sheet and apparent absence of any serious crim< . Auckland, January 4. The New Zealand Stud and Pedigree Stad Company's sal* of thoroughbred yearlings, stud Hereford and Shorthorn bulls, and Leicester, Lincoln, and Shropshire Down rams took place today at Sylvia Park. A good many Soathern sportsmen and cattle breeders were present, notably amongst them being tho Hon. W. Robinson (Canter bury), Hon. Captain Russell, and Messrs Allan McLean, and G. Hunter (Napier), Allan McDonald, Mayor of Gisborne, H. Redwood, and J. Eliott (Waitara), Hon. J. Williamson, and Messrs Whit* of Sydney (nephews of the Hon. J. White),
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 88, 5 January 1886, Page 2
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