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[United Press Association.] Auckland, Monday. A boy named Murray, aged four years was poisoned oil Saturday through taking carbolic acid. Simon O'Brien, aged 18, son of O'Brien tramway contractor, was killed in the city , baths on Saturday. While diving in shallow water he struck his head on th£ bottom. ™ WORKING ON A SUNDAY, Dunedin, February 18. At the Port .Chalmers Police Court, on Saturday, J. Stevenson was charged with a breacli of the Police Offences Act by working his horse and dray on Sunday.., The evidence showed that he had been carting slaughtered sheep to the local' ■' refrigerating works, and that they would have been spoiled by the heat if not sent to the freezing chamber on that day. The magistrate dismissed the charge, considering the work one of necessity, Ross, Monday. , Nearly all the employes in tho ■ ' • United Goldn]inh}g Qo. to-day on the ten hours' system, and in some in-,: * stances on the reduotion in wages.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1916, 16 February 1885, Page 2
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158TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1916, 16 February 1885, Page 2
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