Accidents and Fatalities
(PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION). TiMAUtr, April 16. Early this morning the boilingdown sbop at the Washdyke was found, on fire. A; gale was blowing, and there was no water. The place was soon destroyed. It was a large building, with plant and machinery said to be worth £2QOQ t the property of J. M. Watts, of Christchurch. The works were used for the conversion of offal from the freezing '. works. Fourteen men are thrown out of ' employment. For two months a man named Balph Howorth, who left the Pukeki accomoda- - tion house in the horrors, has been lost. The police searche failed to fine him, buta few days ago his clothes were found a. few miles away, and on further search, the: • body was discovered yesterday-
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 127, 18 April 1891, Page 2
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