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Chbistchorgh, April 29. The Lyttelton Harbor Board are about to erect a jetty at Lyttelton for the use of the town people, This afternoon an accident happened to Charles Leader, workman, at the graving dock. He was on the top of one of the derrick cranes, when a peg holding the guy ropes drew out and the derrick fell. The unfortunate man falling with great force some 25 feet on to the rocky ground beneath, sustained a compound dislocation of the large bone of the leg at the ankle, and. Compound fracture of the small bone of the leg. He was taken to the casual ward, and attended to by Drs Rouse and M'Donald. ,-, ■
Wellington, April 30. At the the Nautical Court to-day as to the accident to the Steamer Manawatu, judgment was given that the accident was caused by.the salting of the boiler t through the.' negligence of the engineer, and the certificate of John Sjmbnds, chief engineer, was suspended for three months.
A report received by the Government states it has reason tojjfear pleuropneumonia is widely spreading in the Waikato district.
At the R.M. Court William Devereanx, butcher, was committed for trial for setting fire to an empty house at the Hutt, on February 4th, '
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Kumara Times, Issue 1120, 1 May 1880, Page 2
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