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Hastings Standard, Issue 303, 22 April 1897, Page 2

A young man named George Wark, sou of Mr R. Wark, of Opawa, near Christchurch, was found dead yesterday morning in his oiliee at the warehouse of I'. Hayman and Co. in whose employ deceased was. A Tiniaru telegram states that at th» Fairlie races at the finish of the last race a horse ran off the course into the crowd and knocked down several people, ft then fell and rolled over its rider, a jockey i named Fox. The man was unconscious for hours; he was badly bruised, and had some ribs broken by the -stones he carried in his pockets as make weight. Angus Me Master, a settler, received a scalp wound through being struck by the hoof of the horse. lie was unconscious for some time, but was able to go home. The others were unhurt. A meeting of the Flood Relief committee was held in the Council Chambers this afternoon. Present—Mr iieilby (chair) Mesdames Russell, Oalwa.v, Fit/Roy, J. N. 'Williams, Tosswill, Miss St Hilt, and Messrs Gal way, McLeod, Charlton, and Cushion. Reports on the wants of thoao visited by the Hoods were presented and will be submitted to the public meeting tonight. Provisions, etc. were ordered for several families requiring immediate relief. Mesdames Russell and Galwa.v reported having extended private relief to a case of dire want. The editor of the Napier Telegraph has latel\ d.'Mited a gn at deal of space.and the usual quantity of scurrility as to the action of the Executive 111 deciding that liosher should be executed. In his usual schoolboy manner the writer argued that an innocent man was to he called upon to in it* r the extreme pen alt\ "f the law. A good deal of pathos—and more bathos—w,ir> wurked into the -- vera! articles, and the editor shed hi- u- .at '<!?i'ial tear on an act that would blacken justice 111 New Zealand tor all time. What the newspaper man said when ISosher confessed h i» not >«••• 11 in ide public ; but it is under--•.•J di'iin ti.e dt-c.-n-* d murdf-rt-r Las ratn« r -fi-i.i- i -.'j;.- -< ri-at: jnal art:. V*. Coming i -iii- r the Napi-r l;.-f'U*»- i". s-<*o, all win admit th it m c L- ]*>i<iher bo--1 11 1 rather meanly to *>!:•• ••■litur of the T ,nph. Mrs Lemon, of Killinchy. was killed at Rakaia, Canterbury, at 7 p in .• -.terday by (idling between a railway <• irnage and th* platform. Tho niarr. of t llkij. Margaret Brand, el i>"»t dau»;!,;.-r of t!>* Goitriior of N--W <.,'i'.h Wair-, and ( aptam Als?»-r----non a:dv-de camp to the Uo-v<sr*v.-r, •« n c -i'-fira'.»>■. 1 Sfhv :ri cli® prfstnet of a %•. *y 1 irge and brilU&m aswrnbly. A native named Horom&na Ti:i Para iidn4, hviiig near hk«-lat..,ua, w.w found d-vt !:. I- I •„, Uv 11. La I apparently p i—«-d -!•» p 1>• c< vsed WM sd. i V--IT, of ft J- . Vi'.-!!.Kvi. r. pr:,---i aru in Hi.-, eLir:;- I if *■ I. ( ■ *.:■ g ■■ d'. - p"-t. T. ■ "r T' t.-b-.'- w: - w fit iIU nice. f»*humabte good* n«.-etl nut heutat-3 •Wat eoumKinieatini; with the IX I. Wellington. » oiuplete famishing m rif w % '-H'lfr ■->( t:rt l>. I. < . rh'-i-f, «>! , jxi". :p.itc m tru« direct U-'S. £«. supphed w.:h (MtaivQ'-it* auj Miw<(4 posi fee*,—