TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Premier left Hobart for the Bluff on Thursday. Maddock, who fell over a quarry at the defence works at the Dunedin Heads, died in the hospital. Messrs Parker and Tribe, Christchurch, have declined to accept the log adopted by the Tailors Union, and the matter has been referred to the Trades and Labor Council.
_ The Christmas escort from Cromwell district (Otago), was the largest, from there for ten years, notwithstanding that a number of miners have not yet washed up. The dead body of a man named John Owen Daley was found near Calliope Dock, Auckland. He had gone out in a dingy, and was evidently drowned. The deceased was a native of Manchester, and a solicitor by profession. A seaman named William McEwan was drowned last night between Brown's Island and Moluiki, Auckland, by falling overboard from the schooner Totara. Deceased was a young man of twenty-seven years of age.
On Monday last a young man named A, strong was struck on the nose at Eangiora whilst chopping wood. The blow caused his nose to bleed, and nothing which the doctors could devise has stopped the flow. On Friday the patient was in a very low state from loss of blood.
A young man named Herbert Mitchell, an employe in the Government printing office, was drowned in the harbor, at Wellington, on Sunday. With two others he was out boating and the boat capsized and sank. His companions clung to an oar and were saved, though much exhausted. On November 23rd a man named Crosby was sent to gaol at Wellington for a month, and as he looked queer was put into a padded cell. Jhe floor, however, was not padded, and during the night Crosby tore up his clothes and beat his head on the floor, became very violent, and was removed to the asylum, where he died on lhursday. The cause of death was found to be disease of the brain, hastened by injury. Uhe jury expressed regret that, as it was deemed advisable to put him into a padded cell, the floor had not been protected too. t
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1994, 14 January 1890, Page 4
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355TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1994, 14 January 1890, Page 4
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