WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4461, 23 April 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. Mr Dwan has telegraphed to the Eeefton papers announcing that in consequence of not having received a requisition in the terms of his address, he has retired from the contest in favour of Mr E. Shaw. The City of Sydney left San Francisco for Auckland with the English mail on the 9th inst., being two days late. The Australia with the March Colonial mails reached San Francisco on the 19th inst.— j Time table date. - Captain Eussell and Mr Wilson, M.H.E., members of the West Coast Eailway Commission, leave by the Mana* pouri for Christchurch, this afternoon, where they join their colleague, Mr Chas. Napier Bell, and will at once com- : mence their work: Mr J. G. Gray, of the Hansard staff, has been appointed secretary to the Commission, and accompanies them. ■•'.. * Saturday. A fatal accident occurred at the bonded store of Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co. at 1 o'clock this afternoon,' resulting in the death of one man, and serious injury to another. Two storemen, named Phillip Lathman and Edwin Bryant, were 'engaged taking cases of spirits and wine to the top floor by means of the hydraulic lift; they had only a light weight on, and both were riding on the top of the cases, when, within a few feet of the top floor, the chain by which the lift is drawn up snapped, and the lift, cargo, and men were precipitated to the ground floor. Lathman was picked up insensible, and expired in a moment or two; both his legs below, the knees were absolutely" crashed. The other man (Bryant) received a serious shock to the spinal cord, and has been sent to the hospital. Lathman, it is thought, attempted to jump from the lift, and was thus crushed between the floor and the outer woodwork of the lift; he had been with the firm for 5§ years, but Bryant was only engaged yesterday.