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•♦ (per united press association.) Napieb, This Dsy. At about 10.16 last night the ship Langstone. being laden with wool, caught fire, but at 5 a.m. this morning the fire was extinguished. It broke out by the fore- mast between decks where the wool bales are loade*! up to the deck. Auckland, November 12. Sir Willoughly Dixon was drowned while fording the Punui Hiver on horseback, about a mile from Kihifrihi, on Saturday. Deceased has resided in the Waikato distriots for the past 35 years. The survey of the Stratford ronte from the Ongaruhe junction of the Central ronte is practically complete, the northern and southern parties having given ' each other the hand. The line is being : gone over again to check the data, but ' the whole information needed will be . available for Parliament when it meets - again. Some survey parties are still j engaged on the Mi mi V alley r^ute, com» ( ing out ia Waitara. Dunkdin, November 12. A yunng man named EIII9 K Pickard, ' son of Dr Pickard, of London, was found , dead in his bed at South Dunedin, ' having evidently been smothered while 1 in nn epileptic fit. He was a single man. an.l had been in the Colony about three years. James Bluet, who was injured by a * gun accident, ib contrary to expectations, milking favourable progress, and has been conscious this afternoon and evening. # 4 Great preparations are being made by v the wool brokers for an active season. 8 In view of the approaching wool season ' the charge of Is 8d hitherto made on wools delivered for auction has been B abolished, making the charges lower than P tn Chmtchurch, and much lower than in Melbourne. Napieb, November 12. tl Mr Will, luspeotor of Schools,_ has I jiscorered fossil moa feathers in pliocene p deposits near Gisborne. This is of ascientifio value, completely upsetting the " that the Moa did not exist in cNew Zealand in past-pliocene times. • t A man named Mclury was killed this 11 jfternoon on the railway, near Takapau. g He was lying drunk or asleep on the el railway when the usual fconds train came ilong. Owing to the sharp curves of the t< me at that spot, he could not be seen in '*< irrie for the train to be stopped. His A jody wap out to pieces. o 1
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 67, 13 November 1888, Page 2
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