TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10714, 5 October 1912, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

A LABOURER KILLED. (By Te]"m'V I ■ .association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Thomas Cook, a labourer, employed in the Westinghouse brake sectiuu of the Petone railway workshops, was. shipping a hand brake 011 a main trunk carriage, which had been placed on the examination road in. the yard, when a shunting engine came right' on to the rear carriage and ran over him. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was 4o years old. He held decorations far service in Egypt and 'South Africa. Twelve months ago he came to New Zealand on account of his wife's health. A widow and on© child; seven years,, are loft 111 strait en cd ci rcu mst ancc s. BOXING. TRUSCOTT BEATS MURPHY. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The professional boxing contest of fifteen rounds for the welter-weight championship of N.Z., was fougl. c to-night between "Denny" Murphy, of New Zealand, the present champion, and "Lyn" Truscott, the Australian champion. The full fifteen rounds were fought. Truscott won-on points.

REEETOX XEWS. REEETOX, Last Night. The Inangahua Miners' Union put out pickets to-day at the railway station in view of an expected invasion of free labour. * The Reefton Chamber of Commerce has passed a very strong resolution, protesting against the stoppage of railway works on the Reefton-Inan-gahua railway, in view of the inceased settlement along the line when? there are noir more than twice as many settlers «s was the case previously.

HARMbT'IS* OPOSSTTVS. . IXVERCARGILL, Lust Xiglifc. The president of tlie Southland' Acclimatisation Society lias received three petitions from farmers in ttie western districts of Southland, bearing a hundred signatures, stating that oppo.sums are harmless from , n settlers' point of view, and that considering the value of opossums "s fur-bearing animals some restriction should be placed 011 their destruction. The petitions, along with ethers coming in later, will be forwarded' to thr Government.