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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3167, 30 March 1889, Page 2

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5 Fatalities, ? Woodviue, March 29. A little girl named Bright well was accidentally killed this evoning by fulling before the wheels of a brake. The wheels passed' over her body and 1 death was instantaneous. 1 Gisbohne, March 29. ' A man named William Watt, a f settler of this district, aged 40 years, was killed,at Maukaiiri this morning. Ho' was driving a dray when the 1 h orsea were startled, Watt jumped ' off and slipped and the wheel passed 1 ov'er his chest. Ho died shortly after, ' ; 1 \ Native Meeting. Auckland, March 29, At the Orakei Meeting to-day a motion was carried recommending that the offices of Native assessors bo abolished. Mr Sydney Taiwhanga read a letter which he had received from Mr 11, Tread well, private secretary to Lord Qnslpw, stating that the new QovirfliV, on' his voyage to the Colony ''would' consider "Taiwhan'ga's proposals'for the' Colonisation of Natiyo janijs, JJr Howarth pf Wellington, urgetl fhat'the'Goventment and the Rouse of Representatives should deal with these proposals. The motion approving Taiwhanga's Jolicroe was agreed to. A number of ehietsiav:' 6ftfoftheir Accidents. i Jpjjppjti;, March 29. The con'ditioii 6f Mr"' JJiii'gl&w tjje stationmaaler it Rivcrsdalej wh'o gftt j canght by the foot in a crossing, and had his foot smashed by a waggon, is serious. The flesh' is pinched from the inside of the leg and the main artg/y {jgnclured, •Amputation will he necessafyj'but his jirqstpaliipn from loss of blood is too greir to'perliiit of j the operation. ' : Peter Kelly a ; farmer .of Hill End, js in the Hospital , with his legs cut 1 about vory badly, having fallen 1 tefore a reaper. , .