PROVINCIAL NEWS
[united tress assooiation.l Auckland, August 7. About 500 were present at the meeting of the unemployed this morning. The following resolution was proposed in an inflammatory Bpeech, which was londly applauded:—"That Government open up works without delay, or we shall have to take steps for ourselves which will cause trouble at large." Some speakers objected to this resolution which, however, was carried with slight modification. The meeting adjourned till Friday next. Dunedin, August 7. A verdict of found drowned was returned at the inquest on John Hancock's body, at Lake Wakatipu. The medical evidence went to show that there were wounds on the body to cause death. It appears that the death of Patrick Egan at Skippers was duo to a truck loaded with quartz jumping off the rails and crushing him.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3047, 9 August 1886, Page 2
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