DUNEDIN NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 408, 6 May 1902, Page 3

DUNEDIN NEWS.

ACCIDENT ON RAILWAY.

By Telegraph—Press Association

Dunedin, last night. A man named W. Miller was killed on Catlins River railway to-day. When tho train left Otaronomo Miller either jumped or fell off, and getting under tho wheels, was dreadfully mangled. Death is supposed to have been instantaneous. SUPPOSED DROWNING FATALITY. It is feared an unknown man was drowned from the Balcl'utha bridge to-day. When tho train was approaching the i driver saw a man on the bridge and blow tho engine whistle. Tho man stepped I aside, but in doing so apparently slipped and fell into tho river. The crew of the steamer Balclutha mado a search in a I boat, but so far tho quest appears to havo been unsuccessful.

DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION.

A committee of the Dairymen’s Ai sociation who have been considering th Dairy Industry Act regulations will r< port suggesting that an effort be made t secure the omission of sub section c c clause 81, which requires that byret stables, etc., shall be 11 cleaned to the satis faction of the Inspector,” as it is providci for in sub-section b. The contention i that cleanliness being a matter of degfei Inspectors might requiro an impos3ibl< degree. TEACHERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA A considerable number of thoso interested in education assembled on the wharf to day when tho contingent of teachers for tho concentration camp in South Africa took their departure, per \Veßtralia, under the charge of Miss >Webb, of Auckland. Hearty cheers and farewells wore exchanged as the steamer left the wharf. PRO-BOER VIEWS. A letter having been published here from Canada in which attention was drawn to the pro-Boer views of Mr J. G. Woolley, Prohibition Lecturer, as set out In the paper, Tho Now Voice, owned and edited by him in Chicago, and to this I being the same gentleman who is engaged to lecture again throughout New Zealand, a meeting of the United Temperance Ro-1 form Cdhncil was held to-night, when iti was resolved, “ That this meeting dis- i claims any sympathy with pro-Boer senti- | ments, 'and it instructs the Secretary to communicate immediately with the New Zealand Alliance to ascertain if the state, ment attributed to Mr Woolley art correct, and in the event of their being a; reported, imperatively demands that the Alliance shall cancel the engagement ) with Mr Woolley.” A TERRIBLE DEATH.

Later information concerning the \ fatality on the Catlins line indicates that iiiVoiewe is one of supposed suicide. A young mauvnamed W.,-Millar joined the train at Romahapna for Otanomomo. He got off there, but, just'..as the train , was . started, he throw himself 'b’Ktjveen tb ' carriage and the guard’s-van, and was i terribly mangled, and was dead when 1 picked up. E ’ - 1