WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3655, 13 September 1880, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day

The 24 hours pedestrian match was finished at ten on Saturday night. Croft of Wellington, covered 118 miles; Swan, of Christchurch, 109 miles; Hansen, of Wellington, 300 miles; and Brooks, of Dunedin, gave in at 86 miles*

The body of a young man named Hunt was found in the harbor last; night. He was recently charged at the Magistrate's Court with lunacy and committed to the asylum, but was discharged since. He was seen on Saturday night. No one knows how he came into the water,

Jane Burgess, who has been missing since the 7th, was found wandering in the bush.

An inquest on the body of the man Hunt, found yesterday, when a verdict of found drowned was returned..

Mr Conyera telegraphs to the Minister of Public Works re railway, employees as follows :—" Except in a few isolated cases, opposition to new scale of pay seems to have died out, and the staff as a whole has tacitly agreed to accept arrangement. All chance of strike is at an end." Dr. Lemon has received the following cablegrams from the Superintendent of Telegraphs, Adelaide :-—" Port Pirie.— The brig Alexandra, from Melbourne, is ashore about ten miles south of Mount Young, making water." " Captain Jervis, 10 p.m., Sorata.—Attempted today to get line ashore-r-too strong wind blowing. The Captain's idea was to communicate with the shore by sending and receiving telegrams. Blowing hard from S.W. Spray breaking over Sorata, but nothing to cause any anxiety." Wae Railway Accident—The Cause. As the train was passing Mully, a gust of wind lifted the first carriage off the rails, and hurled it over the embankment. I The weight pulled the second carriage van

over, but the eugine remained on the line, aud the couplings of the carriages holding, they did not full to the bottom of the em- i baukment, a distance of 70 feet. The body of the iirwfc carriage was torn from its bed, and the passengers thrown to the bottom. About twelve were in the first carriage, of whom two were killed and several severely injured. The second carriage was thrown on its side, and a boy named Quiun suffocated through the otker passengers being thrown upon him. The passengers who were not so severely injured rendered all possible assistance in their power to relieve the sufferings of the others, but it was some time before they were able to get them into a place of safety.

THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. The killed are :~-Miss Pharazyn, aged 11; Master Quinn, aged 3; Master Nicholls, aged 1. The injured, so far as can be ascertained, are:—Mesdames Phillips, Pye, Hodge, Quinn, Messrs Pharazyn, Hodge, Say well, Masters Nicholas and Quinn, aged 4, Messrs Hare, Jackson, Madden, j Donald, Blackley, Kuddick, Hickson, W. McKenzie, James Crouch, Phillips, Quinn, Saywell and Duun (2). Hare and Jackson are seriously injured. It is doubtful if they will recover. An inquest will be held. Later. Bishop, a carpenter, was one of those injured by the railway accident, having his ear cut off and his face badly bruised. Telegrams stale the injured are progressing as favorably as could be expected. Mr Lawson, Commissioner of Railways, held a private inquiry into the accident yesterday for the purpose of submitting a report to the Minister of Public Works. It is understood Mr Lawson issued instructions that when there was any wind at all trains going up the incline must have an engine in front and behind. The Latest. Young Nicholas, injured in the train was delirious last night, and it is doubtful if he recovers. Jackson is still in a critical condition.