THE PROVINCES.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 229, 4 March 1875, Page 3

THE PROVINCES.

OTAGO.

We take the following items from the Daily Times of February 28th and March Ist:

We were informed by telegram from Naseby yesterday that a man named Thomas Turnbull, a farmer, was killed whilst fighting with a man named Clyde at Blackstone Hill.

The spire of the First church was completed on Saturday, and a flag was fixed on to mark the event. The spire now looks slight and slender. It has lost the top-heavy appearance which the upper part had prior to being taken down and rebuilt. On Saturday forenoon an accident occurred at Wilson's saw mills, Tokomairiro, by which a man was seriously injured. Some of the men were shifting a heavy log from a pile of timber, when the shears lost their grip, and it came down upon one of the men, David Caffield, who sustained a compound fracture of the thigh and compound dislocation of the ankle joint. The poor fellow was immediately brought down to the Dunedin Hospital, where he arrived about ten o'clock the same evening. Drs Hulme and Yates set the fractured limb, and so far the man is doing well. Rapid progress is being made in the erection of the normal school, Moray place, the contractor (Mr B. W. U'Ren), anticipating its completion within the specified time. Considerable difficulty was experienced at first, owing to the site being a gully, and a depth of 12ft was sunk before solid ground could be come at. This was afterwards filled in with concrete and bluestone, which makes an excellent foundation, and since the building has been proceeded with expeditiously. The structure, a substantial brick one, of three storeys, has a frontage to the street of 70ft, a depth of 136 ft, with an elevation of 47ft. On the basement floor there will be chiefly play-rooms, store cellars, and accommodation, or sleeping apartment, for the janitor. The second storey contains eight class-rooms, in addition to a cloak depository, and other conveniences. In the top storey there will be three classrooms, painting, casting, and modelling rooms, master's room, and necessary adjuncts. Special attention has been paid to ventilation, there being a superabundance of air-flues over the whole building, and the means of light will be also perfect, fully onethird of the front being glass. All the entrances are from the sides and the supports of the building are strengthened by inverted arches. When complected, it will be the most capacious school in Dunedin, and the business-like manner in which the work id being carried on makes it probable that the school will be open before next Christmas.

The Colonial Bank building at Palmerston is now in a very forward state, and will be finished in the course of a month. Mr Johnston's concrete building is up to the height of two storeys, and the third storey will be finished in the course of teu days. Numerous concrete buildings are proposed to be erected in the Palmerston district. A great advantage of building in concrete in that locality is that an unlimited supply of good clean shingle is to be had from the Shag River for the carting away.