THE WEATHER IN THE SOUTH ISLAND.
TWO MORE LIVES LOST.
•% TiUsmjih.—Prm Amcktitru UHMsTcnuRCH, FridaJ[ The weather is beautifully 'fine, and a thaw has set in.
Yesterday 230 of the unemployed were engaged clearing snow and ice off tho thoroughfares, and to-daj 100 were employed in the samework. A young man named William W.' D. Petrie, Kowai Bush, who was out with others on Mount Torlcsse Run extricating sheep which were snowed in, was lost iu a snowslip yesterday. Timarw, July 12. Wednesday's snow hag complete!y blocked Burke's Pass.
DdStOIK, July 12. Eraost Love, about 21, mailman between Ophir and Ida Valley, m& discovered dead this morning'with his arm looped over the axle of his sulky. He had evidently heeu frozen to death.
A coal famine ig threatened at Arrowtown. The mine at Gibbstown was closed recently by the Mines Department, pending enquiry concerning an accident, and owing to the snow, access tootherpitsis eitlior difficult or impossible.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5076, 13 July 1895, Page 2
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156THE WEATHER IN THE SOUTH ISLAND. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5076, 13 July 1895, Page 2
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