TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1984, 19 December 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A. fire, by which Buicke’s stables, granary, and a quantity of farming machinery were totally destroyed, occurred at Opaki, near Masterton, on Monday morning. Pour racehorses were saved with difficulty. It was insured for £360 in the New Zealand. The total loss is £I2OO.

The journeymen coachbuildera at Wellington have formed a union embracing all branches of the business. The journeymen butchers and slaughtermen will shortly meet for the same purpose.

The rush on th® south side of the Hokitika river, in the borough is again turning out well. The prospects are 4dwts to the load. The wash is feet thick with 90 feet sinking. A branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand has been formed at Oamaru.

Mr William Doig, a farmer residing at Papakaio, Oamaru, was found dead in one of his paddoeks on Monday. He is supposed to have met with an accident.

A hut belonging to Jacob Taylor, a mill hand at Centre Bush, Southland, was destroyed by fire. The owner states he lost two watches and £9O in notes.

At Larrikins, Rumara, a miner named Norman McLeod was found dead. It is stated that deceased, who was fossicking, was seen by some men in the same position on their return from dinner as when they went, and on proceeding to the spot they found life was extinct.

James TJrquhart, a carpenter who has been employed in the Railway Department for the past ten years, was crossing from the railway sheds at the back of the station at Dunedin on Monday morning to take the south train, when the shunting engine ran over him and completely dismembered him. Deceased who lived in South Dunedin, leaves a widow and four children.