DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1931, 20 November 1884, Page 2

DUNEDIN, Tuesday.

M. Gustavk BfcCK.v, Belgian ConsolGeneral for Australasia, was a passenger by train to-day to Christchurch, where he will interview the Governor, then goes on to Wellington. His special object in visiting New Zealand is to meet M. de Harveu, who arrived by the San Francisco boat, in order to establish a Belgian settlement in the colony. A horrible occurrence happened at Carrie's faun, Swinbourne, throe miles from Lower Kyeburn, in Maniototo County, this forenoon. About 10 o'clock William Carrie and his father, who were working about a mile from Ned Carrie's house, saw smoke rising, and at once rushed to the house. They found it enveloped in flames. The two daughters of Neil dime, aged eight and two, were missing, and their remains were found ir the ashes. Previous to the fire only the two children had been in the house, the father and mother being absent in another district. At the Weatherstone diggings, Tuapeka County, to-day, a man named Taylor was crushed to death by a fall of earth from an embankment, which jammed him agaiust a dray. He was single, and a twenty years resident of the district.