PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2325, 9 February 1884, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, February 8. it Buchan's City Foundry this afternoon, John Campbell a trimmer, was finishing a rough casting by grinding it on an emery stone revolving at a high rate of speed when a loud report was heard and be was seen to stagger and fall flat on his back. The stone had broken in three or four .pieces, two of which struck him, the other travelled in the same line but in opposite directions and cut a large hole in the wall of the shed, The man died instantaneously. Buchan had oiled a part of the machine two minutes before, and it it is believed the accident was caused by the casters which were being ground jamming between the wheel and the bar wheel composition. Deceased leaves a wife and six children. Charles Parker was committed for trial for bigamy. At the cricket match to-day, Tasmania, Ist innings, 226 ; Canterbury, 8 wickets for 169.

Gisborne, February 7. There was a severe shock of earthquake at 12.30, and a very severe one at 2.30 this morning. It caused much alarm, ringing fire bells, hotel bells, stopping clocks, and inducing a feeling of nausea like sea-sickness. It was a most peculiar shock, the direction being apparently rotatory. It lasted half a minute. Timaru, February 8, W. C. Bailey, Rabbit Inspector, residing at Timaru, fell down dead this morning in his own house. Heart disease is the supposed cause, W ellington, February 8. A little girl named Annie Fitzgerald, aged two years, while playing on the road at Johnsonyille, was run over by a coach, and killed instantaneous!}'. No blame was attachable to the driver. His Excellency the Governor is expected to return here from the ‘West Coast Sounds to-morrow afternoon, Bro. Walter Bishop,P.D.P.XJ.A.O.D., left en route for Melbourne this afternoon for the purpose of representing New Zealand lodges at the approaching meeting of the Grand Lodge of Druids*