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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 31 May 1884, Page 2

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(UNITED, fIIESS ASSOCIATION.

Auckland, Friday., ' The Insurance Companies refuse to 'pay the insurance claimed on Wall's drapery stock! recently destroyed by fire. :Writs,are issued against them by Wall for £4OOO. Sir F. Whitaker is retained for. plaintiff. : Much excitement prevails' in tlu Thames re the stoppage of tho big pump which would practically put an end to mining operations. v The proposal to deduct a. shilling per week from the wages of the men to support the pump is received with disfavor. The Auckland Members leave Manukan for Wellington in the Hinemoa on Tuesday morning. CnmsTCUURcn, May 29.

The railway authorities deny that there whs a narrow escape from an accident in the tunnel yesterday, and assert that the. goods train was in a siding at Heathcote waiting for the passenger train to come through, Several passengers by the latter state that when approaching the Heathcote end of the tunnel, the whistle was repeatedly blown, and the train was almost brought to a standstill. On emerging from tl\e tunnel a goods train was seen 011 the siding at the mouth of .tlio tunnel, but whether or not the goods train had been in the tunnel they could not say. Later information, re the Lyttelton tunnel railway incident, shows that the cause of the passenger train being slowed down was' that the light near the Heathcote end of the tunnel had gone out, and, according to tlio rule, the driver, on finding such to be the case, at once shut off steam. From the position,of the goods 'train a collision could not have occurred.