FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2631, 24 June 1887, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

[united PRESS association] '•■• Ddnedin, June _ Charles Shand, a single man, while riding from Stratheam station to an adjoining station, was thrown from his dorse and killed. Miss Slatey, on old resident at Cromwell, died from injuries received through falling.over the river bank, .

'EXOBPTIONALWTHk;'' ■ A BIG CONTRACT.- • ■=■.... Gretmouth, June 28. To-day the first rain for a month has fallen.' The weather of late has been most exceptional for. winter. There .are mining claims' Jn the district which 1 have not had a washing since last Christmas, and generally there has been great scarcityfor mining purposes, Notwithstanding the absence of rain, it is astonishing how well the bar keeps. At a meeting of the Works Committee of the Harbor Board this after; noon, it was resolved to' call for tenders for the supply and delivery of 40,000 tons.of stone for the breakwater. A NICE YOUTH. TAMNAKIIioNWORKS. New Plymouth, June 29. A youth named James My was sentenced at the District Court to six months', imprisonment and fifteen lashes for a criminal assault on a little girl. : The operators at the ironworks commence, to-morrow, when Mr Hipkins will begin to blow in the furnace, It is expected to have the furnace tapped on Saturday. The manager is very sanguine of the success of the trial of smfiltinc.

FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. .' A MISSING CONSTABLE. JUBILEE GIFT. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, 22nd June. A young lad named Charles Earnest TowseyVas killed yesterday by the discharge of a small rifle, with whioh he had intended to. go out shooting rabbits, He appears to have put away the rifle loaded, and in taking down his clothes it is supposed it fell and exploded, the bullet entering hip right eye. •■• He was a High School pupil, and his father resides in Melbourne.- .

A constable at Port Chalmers has been' missing since Tuesday morning, and it is supposed he must have fallen off the wharf while on his rounds. '.Messrsßoss and Glendining have given 20 pairs of blankets and 218 yards of flannel from their mill to tho Benevolent Institution. ,- : '.." ..'. Lateb. The body of Constable Porter, of Port Chalmers has been found in the harbor.