GENERAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 933, 29 February 1872, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

Mr Richard Reeves sold Mess Gow and Sugden's]§water-raee (E 23), at the London Tavern, for £4! The Totara and Jones' Creek Arna'j mated Water-Race Company weret purchasers. Another accident happened i Thursday night (Feb. 22), about nii in the Cassius " t claira Ross. A min named George Aitken, while taki some 6ft. props out of the cage at t bottom of the shaft, turned round speak to some one, when one of t props fell on his left foot, splitting! big toe and crushing the instep. 1 was brought up immediately, had t wounds dressed, and is now favorably. What was near being a very serio accident occurred in the Excels! claim Ross, on (February 2i about half-past 7 o'clock. It seei that there is a chamber left open, a; as three of the miners—Thos. Rober George Bell, and Everiugham—w coming up, Everingham's should struck agaiust a cap-piece, and knock him off the bucket. In his fall managed to get hold of a centre-boa and hung there till the bucket ca down again and released him, whi was not very long, as the two otl men gave the alarm before they 1 ascended much further. We offer t Excelsior Company a bit of wholesoi advice, viz., to fill up this daugero opening without delay in order top Tent serious results. The township of Ross has grea increased—numerous large and si stantial buildings have been erect within the last six months. i A spark from a chimney ignited i thatched roof of a house in the 'No East Valley, Dunedin, occupied bj family named Mason. The fath who wae sleeping in the tapper stor was burned to death before the eyes his sons, who were unable to as! him. A serious affray has occurred Black's, Otago, between Chinamen t Europeans. A general melee, i caused by the Chinamen, complain of the short weight of meat sole them. One Chinaman was sevei wounded in the head with a slio and a European had his arm brok Morgan, a butcher, has been arresl A man, known by the name " Scotfcy," now engaged in cutt timber on the Saw-mill Tramv Hokitika, and formerly employed the Waipara, met with a severe a dent while felling a tree. The was using was caught in a wlnle he was in the act of striking, descended on his head with great fo layiug it open, and taking away of the scull. Dr Rossetti was in tendance ; but we have not yet k< whether there are hopes of the ui tunate man's recovery.