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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 2

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(BY TELEGRAPH.) (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Napier, Feb. 13. The hospital dustman struck work as chere is no money to pay him. If the tradespeople do the same — for they have not been paid for months — the hospital must be closed, and forty patients turned out. Auckland, Feb. 13. In the racing accident at tho One* hunga rncfls, Khan's and Chandler's jockeys, J. Laing and Hickey, were rendered nenseless when they fell with their horses, but have escaped with some contusions The borne which caused the collision, by coning on the course, had its back broken) and had to despatched. ■ The Mercury Bay Timber Company's balance-sheet shows a profit for the year of £5794. A dividend equivalent to VZ% per cent, has been declared, A railway laborer, named John Mur* ion, was thrown from a truck at Mercer to-day by a sudden stoppage ot the train, and his jaw was broken m three places. A Maori w»s also thrown out, but only slightly injured. Wellington, Feb. 13. Dr Pollen; chairman of the Middle Island Railway Extension Commission, has returned to Wellington, and it is understood that the report of the Commissioners has been decided upon. Dunedin, Feb. 13; Amongst the cargo of the schooner Pioneer, wrecked a day or two ago at the mouth of the Mataura river, was a monument to be erected over the Tararua victims m Fortrose cemetery. This was fortunately saved.