TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 14 February 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

' . (I'RESS.ASSOCIATION.) . ■: -Wellington,-Wednesday: >- '■ A'limii named, Keiiiiecly,^who was assisting- in shipping". fi;ozei\ 'meat'on boatd.jhc Bombay;this;: morning, a'cdji.dentally alippqd ami fell down .1 distaiiceplE. twenty, feet;'- He received a ; severe injury to the spine, which is. probably fractured. "Ho fas taken to 'the Hospital. < . < •''; / BlisNUEim, Wednesday. ' At. the inquest on the giii ; Starlc,yliO; was'.drowned in the Opawa jaat; nighta; verdict of 'accidentally drowned v/as returned, She wont in company Xvith another girl to fish, and slipped i'ii, - - THE RABBIT PES\'. " ,' ... Blenheim, Eebx' ndry 12. ■' ■, | Ten mongoose,- out of cler' /en recbntlf shipped: from Calcutta, arr'iyed here toThe animals, whic h will formthe. nucleus of a. breed fog" establisli4 meut, are for Mr F, Richmond/of Kichmond Brook. / . : ; ' ; TRIAL-OF REAPD.(G MACHINES.; I : - ? ' At a trial,;of : x, eapera and binders! to-day,-under the; auspices of tlie AgriculturaP Associa; tion, the. following wete: the awar/ jg of the judges' McCormklr, 1;, ,lohnston',<2; Wood,' 3;, 4;, Hornsby, 5): Howard, 6.], : Jd - iCCIDEN'' ML DROWNING; B LENHEiM, February 12. ; A girl nt imed- : Stark, about eight ™ a B e i was accidentally m the Opsiit /a ' :

y' rv- • ■ i'i •• /.bathing fatality,

wi j'iii; Qhrisiohdroh, February 12.; ' This, morning the body of ja hoy . namedfAndrew Geddis, thirteen years of.age,'w;a3"found in a creek near Kangiora. 'His clothes were on the bank, and ho had evidently been drowned 'While'bathmg.::":v : . - :

PAM.TR4MWAY ACCIDENT. r.'.c.-iiwt, February 12. A torrible.accident occurred on the Westpor..fcj,jppii incline this 'afternoon. Mr Joseph Brown, butcher, 0 Council,' and Mr William Barrison, a storekeeper of Waimangaior and Demmistou respectively, were, ascending in an'empty truck when ■ the ■ shackling of tlie descending loaded truck woke,"and the full 'truck dashed into the, empty one,. killing Mr Brown. ; and Severely injuring Mr Harrison. The latter has just been brought into the hospital. ~ / ' Later. . , With reference,, ; to the incline accident, the doctor pronounces Hanirson.to be out of danger. Brown's back ;and heck were broken. The latter' leaves a wife and eight children.' - ; i ' WANQANtji^February 12. . Ojap additional" noooptanco Ims been ,recced foi|theslyiiig Handicap Race, w'.i); Dtaetiury, Rove's Blue Gown only for. (Hp District Handicap. \ ?.■ '. ' - : Invercargill, Wednesday. j The Ohina,man who committed suicide 'yesterday Ms not a another .Celestial,* who; itis believed, .had reason to suppose he..was afflicted with,.the samem;aiadyi ;