DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3684, 15 October 1880, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

This day.

Captain Thomson, Harbor Master, reporting to the Harbor Board to-day, stated that there was an earthquake wave on the 7th instant at the heads, and water is said to have risen 18 inches.

The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at their meeting this afternoon adopted a petition to the President and Congress of the United States, asking for such restriction of the duty on imported good as would foster increased commercial intercourse between that country and the Australian Colonies.

Thursday. W. Forsyth, employed in Messrs Find lay and Co's timber factory, had a narrow escape this afternoon from instantaneous death. He was working a steam crane, behind which was stacked some large logs, two or three of which became detached and rolled down, one of them striking him on the right leg, breaking the 'thigh, and- contusfag his left elbow severely. The nanowness of his escape may be imagined from the fact that the other lo*c that slipped completely smashed in fie shed at the back of the crane which the man} worked. The logs from *heiv great size and being crossed formed a sort of hollow, in which Forsyth provi/entially lay. He was taken to the hospital, where Dr Keberts protnptty amended to his injuries.