TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 19 May 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(united pbess association)

Auckland, Msiy 17, All vessels in harbour bud *.be flags flying half-mast to-cliy out of respect to tlin memory of Captain Fitzgerald' and bis brother, lost from thescitoonei Jland Graham off Povtlaud Island on Sunday last, A prospecting syndicate for the Puhipulii field is being formed in the town by Mr T Barron, a well-known miner and prospector, , Greymouth, Mayl7. The protvacted fine weathor seemc broken, and will do nn.ch good to the miners, for whom the season hat' been exceptionally dry and unfavourable, The week's coal export was 2486 tons,

The Kew Plymouth Murder-

- New Plymotjth, May 18. Bcferringto the murder inquiry, Mr Samuel has replied to the Minister of Justice as to the Govern, ment paying the coat of tho counsel to defend the prisoner aa follows: -"' I recognise the difficulty, but tin 'n-sponsibility- cannot rest on me, My month's loss in business anr expenses amount to between £IOO and £2OO. This I am propared to sivo freely as a donation in aid ol defending a poor, and I bolieve innocent, Maori lad, but evea charitv must have some limit. I will seriously consider the position, seeing that the loss of human life may bo the result of the decision. I hope the Government will do so also,"

Accidents and Fatalities.

_ CiiaisiOHUßcn, May 17, . The adjourned inquest on Henry Groves, killed at Addington railway station on Wednesday afternoon, was held to-day. Tho evidence showed that at 2.45 p.m. a train arrived at Addington from Hornby, with Id truoks in the centre to be detached at Addington. The hinder portion of the train was detached at the platform. The engine proceeded with the remainder, including the trucks for Addington to Lincoln road crossing for the purpose of shunting, the deceased and a porter named Reid accompanying the train, Keid shifted the points in the rear of the train for the Addington truoks to ho " kicked *' baok by the engine on to the siding, The deceased, who was standing alongside the train, gave the signal for the engine to he backed, and after the train begau to move stepped in between the. truoks, presumably to uncouple them. "It appears that his foot was caught betwoen a oheck rail and the line, and that before lie could uncouple he was thrown down, and tho whole fore park of the train, inoludiug the engine went over him. Mr Burnett, tho District Engineer, stated that the line and points were in. good order, but he considered that the line where the accident occurred wasrather bare of ballast, which would inorease the possibility- of the man catohing his fqot. The jury retired at 1.80 p.m., and at 5 minutes past 8 returned with the following ver-dict:-"The jury is of opinion that the deceased came to bis death by the truoks and engine running over him, his foot getting jammed betwoen the points of the oheck and the runnjng rails, at which place the line is not in asafe qoudition." Tho

jury'is of opinion that the point of the cheok.and thernnniug rails is highly dangerous, and should at onoe be made safe, either by the addition pfdjßfjance blocks placed at the ends or in some bete way, andtbatat the.place of the accident there was not sufficient ballast."

• Aucehnd, May 17. A resident of Avondale, named John Castle, formerly of the West Coast, died suddenly yesterday from the;b,ursjng |of a blood vessel,