FATAL TRACTION ENGINE ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph—Press-Association)'
• i■■ x V':. Ghristohurch, Friday. A,fatal'accident occurred in the \Veka Pass this raoming.' . -J^manliamed'J. Brown was tak-ing'a.-tracfcion.': engine down a long incline,'■wljoa'tlie brake gave way, and the engine rushed-to the bottom of the incline, ran. up -a bank, and turned'completely Over., /Brojyn. arid the steersman escaped' with cuts and bruises, but of three men who were in a truck drawn by the engine, one named- Daniel Miff-' phy injured about the 'headjj'jlnd dietl a. short'time after-] wards, ■ Another named. Joseph Burbery was seriously injured, and wis brought down, to the v Christohurolihospital..,■ . '• i' Murphy was a single man belong--ingtoMelbouMe.-''' ■'„... '■■"'"'•■
Qhgomlfllew '■ Zealaiji "■'■ •Wfi thVPosi 1 , that.the 'Committee of the Otago Rugby; Union had,,;without thVfcfiowielfgeof itsplayersor of the Canterbury Union, secretly appealed to the.English Union .against-&e New. Zealand and tile ■Canterbury Union in the matter of the OtagoCanterbury match, Jt was sought to discredit thevstatement. The Hon. Secretary dftbe New Zealand Rugby 'Union,. has .just received from the 'English Union, for the information of his Union, a copy of the letter sent, to Mr G. Rowland Hill, Hon. Secretary'oftho Rugby Football Union, by the Otago Uniori After reiterating the various arguments against the formation of the N.Z. Union, which have been repeatedly met; and refuted in the colony, the Committee of the Ojtago Union state that they resent'the creation of a' body which usurps mo functions of the parent Union by setting itself up as a court of appeal. Because fcbo Otiigo Union has'declined to sacrifice its independence, tliß'letter continues, thoN.Z. Union has -.now tyrannically applied the "boycott," 1 and has determined to. punish Otago, and with it the Southland Unibh,' : -which' shares its vieivs, by debarring it from meeting all Unions that are affiliated to the Central Union, the effect being that'the; Canterbury-Otago match was not to take place. The letter concludes:-" It is' on : this matter that the Otago Union wishes an expression of opinion from your Committee. Hero are two Unions, those of. Canterbury'- and Otago, both of them..affiliated to-yourUnion,.and neither of them, under any ban of disqualification or suspension, desirous of playing their' annual match, but interdicted from doing so by the | a6tion'-of the Now Zealand Union in forbidding the Unions that are affiliafedlo M r'omplayingthose that havo not joined it: The New Zealand Union, like the Union of Canterbury aiid'Otago, ;owes allegiance to your body, and my Unions feels that it" it) justified' in appealing'tb the the parent Union forja. decision ,as toffhothbrtheNewZoaland Union is not exceeding its powers as one affiliated Union when itassiimes the : right tp-forbid matches between two other Unions affiliated to the English' Union,"-- -'.'.-•..;,-■. , a
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4913, 29 December 1894, Page 2
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438FATAL TRACTION ENGINE ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4913, 29 December 1894, Page 2
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