FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 27478, 12 November 1887, Page 3

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

Secoad Edition.

FIVE MEN BURIED ALIVE. (Press Association.) .. -j- :'■' hmckksni, 'NoV; 12. .- •. At dale Fortwjfe Bailway; -isv« men ware ' buried by a fall of earth, caused by a ~ tunnel -'subsiding yesterday •■ after- ' noon, Two-were dug.out alive and • brought to -Inveroargill Hospital today.- Two dead bodies have been , recovered, and one has not yet been •■•• found) but it is almost certain he 'cannot be living. 1„. . CHRISTCHUROH RACES. :' * (United Press Association,) CiraisTciumcu, November 11,. . Mr O'Brien, owner of Gipsy King, -.intends talringlegal proceedings against the stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club, who dismissed his protest against Lochielin the New Zealand Cup, in •'-orisTtocompellthem to declare the ■ Ifßnull and void. • i Wfo Stakes in connectionwiththe 3 :C. J. C. Metropolitan Meeting amount wfaML Amounts over £IOO :-(i. . G. Stead, £9311 14s; E Goodman, .i47G-18s;D. O'Brien, £856 ss; P. Butler, £289 8s; W, C, Webb,-£IGB : ; 8s; P. Tancred, £l5B 13s; J. Poole, £14012s ;W, Russell, £1113s; Hon. ■ G. McLean,' £lO5 9s. ——MM—■ M Ml ..' Our üßual "Gardening JNotes," will appear in Monday's issue, «, The condition of the Crown Prince of is now deemed hopeless The next English and European Mail .... tia Rio per R.M.S. Rimutaka,. will close . at the Masterton Post Office on Thurs- ,! day next, 17th hist. Experiments are being tried in South Australia to exterminate the rabbit pest by an infcctuouß disease" tuberculosis." MrT. G, Mason arrived in Auckland hjLtbe Mariposa, from San-Francisco, wPrday, and may bo expected in Mantenon at the beginning of next week. "Wo understand that the talented G'ren- '•■' wood family—Mrs Greenwood, her four daughters, and Master Bob-will give two of their popular concerts in Masterton . nextweek. ; '•• Five truck loads of Agricultural implowonts, intended for the Masterton' Show ■ : on .Thursday next, arrived at the Master-' ■ ; ton-Railway Station this morning from ;. -the South island. •; - - A deputation from the Masterton ..Pas- • .' toral -Society waited m His'.Worship: the •.'. Mayor to-day with'referouca to, a' public• " holiday; on the Show day, Thursday • next. His Worship consented to pro- • ■''claim a-holiday' from 12 o'clock on that ..t.dav.' '.' ' T? Tho New Zealand Loan aud Mercantile ; Agency Company's weekly sale took place st Melbourne on Thursday last, when a catalogue of was submitted at • : auction. Competition was very spirited, -.and pricos obtained were considered satisfactory. Light conditioned merino was in especially good demand. Greasy lambs brought la jd per lb, merino 10|d, cross ; i: breds KM, and scoured wools Is 3id per lb. ~ .jjsi instance, showing the rapidity with goods can bo procured, from England, has just come under notice, and is •well worth reporting. Messrs M. Casel- '',_• berg and Co,, sent on order for Turnip ieed by the mail which left Auckland on the 15th August, and the seed arrived by the"Ruapehu" onthefith inst., being eleven weeks and six days from the departure of the mail steamer from Auckland to the arrival of the consignment in . Masterton. -■ ' • There are at present eleven patients in the Masterton Hospital, and as most of the cases required liberal application of .. bandages, tho custodian has been com- ;,, wiled to tear up bed sheets for the pur;,Jpo. Anyone having old linen suitablo i-" Tor hospital use, would greatly assist the institution if they would forward them ••' to Mr T. G. Mason's chemist, Queen- ....." fitreet, or to the custodian, by.whom they ' . would be thankfully received,