TELEGRAMS.
(from our own correspondent. )
Dunedin, 23.
The West Coast Eailway Commission to-day examined at great length Mr Blair, the Engineer-in-Charge, and then inspected the plan 3 of the proposed routes.
It having been stated by Councillors that Inspector Weldon was strongly in favor, of having the Contagious I)isGaso Act in force, the Inspector has written to the Mayor that what he said 'in -effect was, that he could stropgly recommend enforcing the Act to prevent disease, and bad chai'acters, coming hero from other places. A man, supposed to beßain,ofWaitaki, fell off the North express, South of the Otepopo tunnel to-day. The train stopped and the man was picked up in an unconscious state, having received severe injuries to his head. He was brought on; to Palmerston where he was left in a dying state. Christchurch, 24. The Belfast Refrigerating Company have ordered a third Haslam machine, which will enable; them to .freeze 300 sheep a day, instead of 260 as now. The storage accommodation fg to-be increased to accommodate 1,100 carcasses in store at one time.
Christchurch, 24.
About 17,000 eggs of the American brook trout have been already obtained at Opawa. Orders for a large number of eggs of the American variety have been received from the Tasmanian Salmon Commissioners.
Westport, 24.
The Omapere was shifted over half a length toward the channel at last night's tide, and there are confident hopes that she will be got clear by the next tide, or one following.
Bluff, 24.
Clarke, principal light-keeper on Dog Island lighthouse, fell down the centre of the tower seventy feet on Wednesday morning, and only survived a few hours.
Napier, 24,
At a meeting yesterday, re shipping frozen meat to England, it was stated that all the sheep now being put on board the Mataura and Auckland, were sent from this province.
Wellington, 24.
The holiday has been a very miserable one, botli here and at Christchurch, the weather being wet and foggy.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1276, 25 May 1883, Page 2
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