THE WATERWORKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 19, 23 January 1868, Page 2

THE WATERWORKS.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Slit— Can you inform me, through the medium of your valuable paper, what is the reason that the pipes now being laid and joiuted have not been submitted to tender, as was the case with the other portions of the work ? Is it to suit a private purpose, or to work a public benefit ? Yours, Sec, A CONTRACTOR. Nelson, January 22, 1868. The Grey River Argus understands that an agreement has been made between the various banks doing business on tbe West Coast to reduce tbe piice given for gold sixpence per ounce. The price in future will be £i 15s. 9d. instead of £'-i 16s. 3d. Mr Lancaster, linen draper, of Carlisle, has met with a shocking death. An inquest was held on the body, at Southwaite station. From the evidence, it appeared that, as the last train from the south was leaving the above-named station, the guard informed the porter on duty that there was something lying beside the rail not far vp — he believed it was a man and a dog. On search being made, a very frightful sk-ht was discovered. A gentleman lay dead on the bank, his head being* about three feet from the rails, while his legs were stretched over the signal '.vire Blood was flowing profusely from the back ot his head, over the gravel, and down a drain about three yards off, the waters of which it had stained for a considerable distance. Standing over the body, and evincing, the most affeeftng signs of distress, was a pointer ; and about twenty yards northward, beside the unfortunate man's bat, lay the dead body of a second dog, with one of bis hind legs cut off. The deceased had that morning gone out -^ with two dogs for a day's shooting. It is clear that he was making his way to the station by a short cut alon„' the line, when the engine, which took the 6*40 train from Carlisle to Penrith, oa its return without a train came upon him unobserved and struck him behind the head. The dog,, which was found whining over the body, became ferocious when the party attempted to remove the remains of its master and it was not without great trouble and danger that they at last secured it with a rope. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a recommendation, at the suggestion of the coroner, that when single engines are passing along a line they should not go tender foremost as in this instance.