TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6019, 9 December 1890, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

A man named Fischer, in the employ of Messrs Galloway and Niven, met with a serious accident whilst at work this morning. Ho was working on tho ship Balolutha, to which some repairs are being made, when ho had one of his eyes cut out by a rivet. The unfortunate man was immediately brought ashore, and conveyed to the Hospital, where his injury was attended to.

In reference to the report that Mr W. 0. Smith proposes to take proceedings against the Woodvillo Examiner, the Hawke's Bay Honild, and the Waipawa Mail, for statements in connection with alleged negotiations for the Waikopiro block, the Examiner invites the threatened proceedings. Our plucky Woodville contemporary says:— "In Court wo shall produce evidence to provo much more than wo have published, and there will be somo eye-openers. Wβ have truth and right on our side ;it is our earnest wish to defend the fair name aud fame of New Zealand, and wo hail with joyous hope that occasion when wo shall have an opportunity of showing that we have rondered si- , nnl service to the people and country. Wo fanoy, however, that Mr Smith will think twice before bringing a libel notion against us, as he must have some knowledge of the nature of tho evidence at our disposal."

Dunns , the progress of the Dunedin meeting . Air. Ormond was asked to put a prioe ou St. Andrew. The request camo from an Australian buyer, but Mr. Ormond refused oven to quote a figure, and St. Androw will fulfil his engagement in the Great Northern Derby.

In Groat Britain every year an average of '2(3,000 letters are coated without addresses. " .

Under tho assumed name of Madame Elita and Co., two , of the Misses Wilson Barrett are doing good business as dressmakers at 261 Fitzjohn's promenade, near Fitzjohn's-nveuuo. This, by the way (Woman tolls us), is only a temporary address, as they contemplate moving shortly into larger premises in New Bond-street. Tho Misses Wilson Barrett have undertaken most of the dresses for tho forthcoming play, "The People's Idol," with which their father intends to opon his new theatre in Wyeh streot. 3ne, of pale maize-colored silk and crepo to match, will bo trimmed with blue cornflowers, and is destined for Miss Jeffries, the beautiful young American whom Mr Wilson Barrett has engaged. Another gown is of a soft shade of mauve surah silk, in tho trimming of which pearls will bo employod.

The Government of Brazil has decreed that from Nov. 15 nil import duties are to bo paid in gold. This will bring eleven millions sterling annually into the Treasury.

Mr Lloyd Osborne (Mr Louis Stevenson's stepson) hias arrived in London from Sydney, where he left Mr Stevenson in fairly good health. Mr Osborne (says a London correspondent) has come back to arrange Mr Stevenson's affairs ia England, and to take out all the necessaries for their home in Samoa ; also to escort the author's mother, who is going to live with hor eon and his family in that far-off southern island.

Edward Bennett, a carman, at Ohelmsford, has recently come in for a fortune of £30,000. It appears that Bennett's father, who is a working bricklayer in London, has been left tho handsome legacy of £200,000 by a brother, who carried on the business of a builder and contractor «t Falmouth. Mr Bennett, sen., has five children —four sous and a daughter—and he proposed to divide the fortune between them to the extent of £30,000.

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