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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 86, 14 March 1885, Page 3

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! (UNITED PRESS" ASSOCIATIONi). ■ I . . FErLDitfG,<l his ttay.; „, j" Bernhdt one of tlie men injured.in the | trap accident, on Thursday, died this |,3norhing^ : { '■ ... "' ' '[ '.' ■ I ~ The following additional entries for th& ' . Easter Monday 'races, . wore received by ! post, for the following events., :— . Feilding, Handicap, Gentle .'Annie ; Win- > ter bate,' G.eiitle Annie ; Hurdles, Dusk ; ■ Tradesman- s Pui-se, ' Dusk. Woodville, This Day. Honsl Ballance and Buckley, arrived ' here last night. The former goes , to Napier, m connection with native business, and the latter is qn his waj r to Gisborne, to visit charitable institutions. , MrT. F. I'ountaine, an 'old' settler here, who is going home, was presented last evening with- a purse of sovereigns by settlers, m token of recognition of liis services rendered to the^district. ;'..'.,-' ■ atJCjicjcani)', March 12: i Mr FeU,; manager , ; of the , Seaman's Best* has received a. letter Horn a sailor at Honkong, m which he stated that the ship East 1 Lothian,. Captain Crase, which Washere eighteen months back, has been lost with all hands, . , ' , Two. ,skuli^ have. been found, apparent- > ly those of '.a'man 'and ,womari, m some made ground at the bottom, of a cesspool near the Fitzroy Hotel, Wakefield-street, while the contractor was excavating. A closet had been standing there for; 20 years. • .Andrew "Waiapo, a young Kaipara chief, who has become a 4 law student, left m. a - rn^ail steamer . for Sydney, . leaving a valueless . cheque for ' £25 behind Hini, 'and sundry creditors lamenting.

r CnßisrcncßOir, Maxell 13. . Sir Julius VogoL. addresses his constit; vents here on Wednesday xiext, ; At a ni'eeting convened by Messrs Powell' and Carsley, the two commissioner s on the unemployed i question', 1 ' this evening, there was a, large attendance* It .was. stated by one of the cbin- : missioners that if the Gov,ernihent : did not .publish their report m full ' some of them would do so. The following 1 resolutjori was carried unanimously : — "That the '' Government 'be asked to • reopen the publici works,: the. harvest 'having' pcoved a complete failure, and hundred?; of men being , out . of employ-. . ment. „.,,;.. „ ,, ! A man named John Thompson, resideht of Tinifirhifell iVpm the excursion train returning at night to Timaru from Christchurclii '■ and Tiad a most marvel- ; lbus escape. frani injury./ He Was drunk, and . fell off at,,the bank side north of Bakaia .when the train was #oing 20 ; or 30 miles an hour. . .The train was stopped and a search' was made, but m tne darkness of tlie night' nothing could be seen of him.' 'The railway officialssearched the line for thirteen miles, and were out with lanterns .nearly all , night. The search was fruitless, but. when they got to Dunsandel .they saw Thompson standing on the platform with nothing the rriatWr with hini except " a, few scratches bii the face and hands. He had no recollection of falling -off 'th6> trails, but remembers coming too and finding himself tying on tussocks, close to the rails. ; „ ■ .-,,.■ ' DvK t edin, March 12. Four more defendants from tho Otago Central Railway works were , fined for sly grog-selling to-day. An inquest was held on the drayman Creed* to-day. It was shown that a train trighfcenod his horse, which bolted, and ho foil off, the. wheel passing over his nock. ' • The man Fitzpatrick, who was so badly hurt by a reaping machine at Clutha, died after the amputation of his leg, mortification having set iii.