NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.
[press assooiatiok.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. Thbrb was considerable excitement yester* day over the. bnrOugh election, the Jockey Club versus the Blue Kibbrn Army being the most active amoDgat the voters. The former pnt their men in, Mr. Berry beating .Captain Davidson by 23, and Mr. Callaghan beating Mr. Ward by 18 votes. HAWERA, Friday. A narrow escape from a fatal accident occurred to a survey party 'yesterday., Mr. Alfred Atkinson (son of the member for Egmont) was in charge of the party in the bush, when a dead limb fell from a tree, knocking off Mr. Atkinspn't bat, stunning and bruising a man named Downey, anj> breaking the thigh of a man named Thomas : .Harrison. On acconht of the accident happening, they did. not. reach here till past!; midnight.
WELLINGTON, Friday. One of the. ca'ea for hearing, at the civd. sittings of the Supreme Conrt is an action brought , by Mr. George Dixon against the New Zealand Accident Insurance. Company to recover the sum of £500 on a policy taken out in the office of the company^ BLENHEIM, Friday. Messrs. Pickering and Cq. 's Flax Mill, afc Spring Creek, was totally destroyed by fire last evening. The only insurance is in the Liverpool, London, and Globe for £300. The loss is estimated at £515. HOKITIKA, Friday. At a meeting of the Westland Ttajrng Club, this evening, it was resolved to issae a programme for the Christmas meeting of fewo days with about £400 added money. / _ CHRISTCfIURCH, Friday. A new trial, has. been granted in. Frinch v. the Union Steamship Company. Bundoora has been scratched, for the Canterbury and New Zealand Caps.
DUNEDIN, Friday. The retail price of mattnn has to 3d per pound.
A lad named McCarp was drowned in tfia river at Kelso last night. His elder brother,, who jumped in after bim, was rescued with difficulty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 5
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