GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE DROWNING FATALITST. LPBESS ASSOCIATION.! DLNEDIN, March 21. Particuilars of the drowning fatality just to band show that Mr Sandilands was returning to Balclutha in a single buggy with has wife and child of twenty mbnths, when the vehicle fell over a steep bank on the narrow road into the river, and the three were drowned. The mishap was witnessed by Mrs Morran, a music teacher, who was riding on ■ horseback. Dragging has been continued without success for the % bodies, but the horse (alive) and the buggy were rescued. In the buggy were found two bottles of whisky in a brown paper paircel. The couple were aged about 35, and l>ad been a year in Balclutha, and formerly belonged to Dunedin. The Star's comsipondenb wires that the supposition is that tin? driver was in.i*i>xicated. The trap was. backed over, the occupants being pitched oat into the stream, which there runs swift and deep. Sandilands was unfortunately addicted to dsrink. DAIRY INSTRUCTION FOR GIRLS. DUNEDIN, March 21. At a meeting of the Education Board, a letter was read fnom the headmaster of the Mosgiel school, suggesting that dairy instruction to girls should form part of the course in connection with the technical instruction. The Chairman of the Board (Mr T. Mackenzie. M.H.R.) said he doubted whether even a farmer's daughter would be induced to go to such a class, as factories were to a great extent superseding the old fashion. THE SLAUGHTERING TROUBLE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. • More trouble has arisen at the Islington and Belfast freezing works. The slaughtermen refuse to skin the lwuids of sheep .^5 not being part of the agreement. . ) A mtetling of the n.en was held, to-day, and, after the matter was discussed at length, a vote v/as> taken on the question as to whether the men would continue to work if required to skin the heads. The voting -was equal, and another meeting will be held to-morrow. MEASLES DOWN SOUTH. INVERCARGILL, March 21. It is stated that canes of measles exist f in 50 families, tho children of which attend the South school, and that the school will probably be dosed. _____ i I AN OLD MAN'S DEATH. »l I!STVERCARG£LL, March 21. An. unknown man, aged about 70 years, fell BDiongst some milk cans on the railway station this evening, and was picked up, but died before a doctor arrived. Deceased held a ticket for Faiifield. FATAL ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, March 22. Andrew Sharps, a traveller for the Phloenix Co. , met his death as the result of his bor*3 bolting. An approaching trap was going in the same direction, and the horse swerved and Sharp wiaa thitown, his head striking the wheel of the vehicle It is understood that deceased was married, his wife and family residing in Dunedin.