NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 July 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PUR PEE 33 ASSOCIATION.] Fatal Accident. Invercargill, This Day. On Sunday evening the body of John Murdoch, carpenter, was found close to the edge of the Bluff railway plalform with his right temple driven in. The deceased was seen on the platform of the carriage as the late train entered the station on Saturday night, and is supposed to have slipped olf and was killed instantly. Municipal Abattoirs. Nelson This Day. The deputation from the Wellington City Council consisting of the engineer and three councillors have paid a visit to Nelson for the purpose of inspecting the abattoirs. Tbo deputationists wero shown over the abattoirs by the Mayor [and they expressed themselves well pleased with it and will probably recommend the crecdon of a somewhat 1 U'g r building, oa similar lines at Wellington. Drowned. Blenheim, This Day. A settler named Herbert Severn, aged 40, was drowned at Kenepuru last nigbt. A dingy in which he was landing from a yacht swamped about 50 yards from the shore. Fraud. Auckland, This Day. James A. Gorrie was brought from Sydney charged with obtaining £34 by fraud from George Tuck, by repre enting himself as owner of the horse Motoa, and sel ing the same. Local Option. Christchurch, July to. A well attended meeting in the Choral Kail unanimously carried a motion protesting against the extension of the time between the local option polls, and urging parliament to reject the pioposal. A Sick Trooper. On arrival of the returned troopers today, Trooper Harwood of New Brighton, had to be removed to the hospital suffering from pneumonia.

Something like a muddle. Several local clergymen and T. E. Taylor desirous of meeting tho returning members of the Fourth and Fifth contingents and some of the reserves arrived by express to-night. 71 Canterbury and 70 or 80 North Island and Blenheim men had declined to go on with the Tagus being dissatisfied with (he conditions. There was considerable confusion at the station. The Garrison band and three companies of volunteers had assembled to escort the men through the town, and the Mayor was present to officially welcome them. However the men were not formed up and were taken charge of by friends, and it was found impossible to complete the programme which had been arranged. The North Island men went on by the boat. Waimate Hotel Burned. Waim vte, July 15.

Tho Waimate Hotel and several shops adjoining were burnt down this morning No one was up in the hotel and the inmates had barely time to escape. The fire started in the hotel kitchen, but (he cause is unknown. Nothing was saved except the private papers of tho licensee. Most of the goods were got out of the shops adjoining. Twomey’s insurance on the hotel was £BOO and £IOO on the stock and furniture. Tho other insurances on tho places burnt down were—Franklin, stationer, -£lO5 ; Meyers and Jones, butcheis, J£100|; Inkston, barber, £7O, and Williams, shoemaker, was uninsured. Fortunately there was little wind, otherwise other places would have been burnt. The hotel was about the oldest in Waimate.