THK WAIKITO TUEF CLUU.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1264, 5 August 1880, Page 3

THK WAIKITO TUEF CLUU.

TO TllL rOTTOK. Sir, — ] uncloLfttiUKl thaL it wad at I 'inptdl tr> hold a hole and comer meeting oi tlieW ,u! atu Tiuf Club on Mo'id,.^, "^uin^ List, \ihich hi})])ily lovalixd. a-> all vi< !i att'j>iii)f> should, man l^no'iumou-, Luliiie. I iiii'lcibLiDil that the decretal}, (:>lr Ivcun^dy Hill) sjut punted firutiln^. to .1 few favoured lneuiljer^, v/hilo mysclJ: and niiny othora did not reccn c any noti.'k ition. "Wlufc doot> it mem iiic'i "Why were nicmbuis lot pul)hcly calbd toyotlicv throu^li an tub'oiti^unont m }oui paper, as ia done by3li Pciohalm uc ! ;- Luid in\ irnbl) ( Is it b'jc.m o JvFi l[iJl tliai'v-. him^Jt O'liiiipofcoiit hi the r i\n t Club ] — it would seem so. I trubt nieiiil)yr^ Mill, tli j Calicut op])ouuiuty cjinniunt on tlm action oi Mr X, Ilill'b, and let him unmistakoably umlei iand that it i? \\\h bu c iiied^ so long as he holds his pic si. Nt position to be conrt^oiif to all the menibeia and not only to Ins jarticular favoui ites, and to treat all alike. 11, in his lnyh and mightiness he cannot act so, ho had better re^i^n, a step pi rhaps in the interests of the Waikato Turf Club, to be courted by member rather than not. — I am &c., A Member.

A r.VTAL accident occurred on FiicUy evening, near Stratford, to an It.ilia-Aus-trian named Dionibio Azzi. Deceased was one of a number of immigrants of various European nationalities who had originally be ri n landed in Jacloon'.s Lay, on the "Wot Coast of the .South Inland, but were att< r"wavds transferred to TaramLi. Pic was uuni.uricJ, about 23 vc.u'a of age, and had no relations in the Colony. At the time of the accident, which dopri\ od him of life, ho was engaged with twn other Italians who came with him from Jackson.*, Bay, and are named respectively (Juixeppo Zaiote, and Alessio tSavieri, on a Government contract. On the Frilay evening in question, after the labois of the d'iy, the party took tea in tlleir tent The evening meal being 1 ended, deceased and Z.iioto went out for the purpose of i>plittinar .some Avood for the oven. Having sclcctod a small log" 31 feet long 1 and 1 foot thick, and stardmg one at one end of it and the other at the other end, they proceeded to cut it up with their axes by alternative blows. Dining 1 the operation the axe of the deceabcd becimo fixed in the wood, and deceased bending 1 over the log for the purpose of feeing 1 it, received a cut from his companions axo in the \>.v k of lm head. \zy.i fell forward on the lo^, groined and expired. Zaioto and S.ivieii i.iv to .Str.itfor 1, which in bbout a mile and n half distant from the scene of the accident, and reported the .sad ocourence. Help was at once forthcoming 1 , and the body of the mifoitmnto man was carried on a stretcher to Stratford, On the following day an inquest was held bv the Coroner, Dr. Gibb^s, and a jury; Mr. In^petfor Bullm being preset, and Mr. C. D. Whitcombe acting as interpreter, when a verdict was returned of "Accidental Death."