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Nearly 8000 visited the Exhibition on Saturday, A cheap train from Bruce County brought in nearly 800 passengers. Wm. Martin’s Royal Mail Hotel, Dobson, near Greymonth, was burnt down on Saturday morning. Nothing was saved. The house was insured in the Equitable for £350 ; there was no insurance on the furniture. A charge of stealing £3OO worth of gold amalgam from the Sir Francis Drake Company’s battery at Reefton, preferred against a young man named James Allen, the engine driver of the company, was begun in the District Court, Reefton, on Thursday. No evidence was called for the defence. The jury were locked up all night, and next morning announced that they were unable to agree, A second jury was empanelled, and being unable to agree were locked up until Monday. Mary Stewart, wife of a labourer, died in the Christchurch hospital on Saturday from injuries caused by her being thrown out of a trap on the New Brighton road last Monday. At a general meeting of the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council ora Saturday night Mr F. S. Parker was elected president, and Mr P. J, Bidmeade, secretary. Thirteen societies with 1450 members, are already affiliated to the council. Other societies, with an aggregate membership of 1650, are expected to join shortly, as they are in sympathy with it, and others are in process of formation and expected to join ultimately. A young man named Raven was drowned at Kurow on Friday. He had crossed a branch of the Waitaki river on horseback to drive two horses off ah island. In re-crossing both horse and rider were swept away and have not been seen since. Puhipuhi is to be opened for mining operations as soon as regulations are drawn up and signed by the Governor. More rich stone has been found in the district. A recent assay is said to have given 9160zs to the ton. A Tailoresses’ Union is to he formed at Auckland under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council. The Rev. Mr McAra died at Gisborne at 7.30 p.m on Saturday.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2000, 28 January 1890, Page 4
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348TELEGRAPHIC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2000, 28 January 1890, Page 4
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