TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1604, 20 April 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, April 19. An accident occurred on the Buller road, thirteen miles from Westport, this morning, ac a place where men are working, miking the road. A slip ot thousauds of tons came down, burying one man ana breaking both legs of another. It took two hours to rescue die latfce<-, and the former is still buried. A doctor has just left for the scene.

What sum the Government will propose to be subscribed to the Imperial lustitute is not yet decided.

The Agent-General cables to the Government an invitation from the National Rifle Association, of England, to the New Zealand Rifle Association to send Home a team to Wimbledon on July 9, to compete for the jubilee prizes. As "the New Zealand volunteers are not armed with the same weapons as the English volunteers,' the sending of a team is out of the question.

AUCKLAND, April 20. Major Green, the sheriff, died yesterday. The deceased had been in delicate health for some time, but insisted on supervising the execution of Caffrey and Perm, and had been declining ever since.

A man answering Grant's description was seen on the railway wharf on the night of the 11th instant. He is now believed to have fallen over the wharf and been drowned.

Further volunteer trouble has occurred in No. 3 Battalion.

The fire at Farnell this morning is believed to be the work of an incendiary. The circumstances are of the- same character as the fires in Mount.- Eden district. ' "

Intelligence has been received from San Francisco that Ferdinand Barth had willed $1,000 to the Auckland Hospital. Barth has no relatives here, and, so far ad is known, never received any benefit from the inalilniion.

Arrived — The s.s. Arawata from, Fiji. The s.s. Suva was towed by the Arawata into Auckland for repairs, her machinery having broken down. ". f GISBOENE, April 20. Mr. S. Locke, M.H.R., on the East Coast, announces that owing to il! 'health he will not contest the seat at the forthcoming eiectiou.

DUNEDIN, April 18. At a well-attended meeting ot policyholders in the Mutual Provident Society, resolutions were passed that bonuses granted in past years to the principal officers of the Society have been excessive, and should be largely reduced, if not altogether discontinued, in future. That tlie time has arrived when the local board in each colony should be elected by thd policyholders in the colony which they represent.

OAMARU, April 20. An explosion of coal gas took place oa board the Omapere when she was about 40 miles from Oamaru on Monday morning. Tho Omapere was coming from Greymouth with a cargo of coal, and one of the hatches had been lifted for the purpose of getting out the coal geaiv' A inau approached with a lantern, and an explosion took place, several of the hatches being blown off. The first officer, who was standing over the hold, had his face very badly burnt and his whiskers singed off. One passenger also had his hands badly burnt. Ho damage was done to the steamer.

WESTPORT, April 20.

Thomas Lahy is the name of the man killed by a slip on the Buller road yesterday, and P. Dunn is the injured man. They were working with the object of bringing down a thirty feet face when it slipped without warning entirely covering Lahy and just catching Dunn. Lahy's body was CUt up into small pieces. He leaves a wife and ei^ht children at Duuediu. Dunn is progressing favorably.