MASTERTON NEWS.
Special to the New Zealand Times. May 14. John Lawrence Engel was committed, for trial to-day on two charges of stealing moneys belonging to Mr W. A. Liverton, of Tenui. Bail was allowed. A lad named Dixon, employed by Dixon Bros., cordial manufacturers, met with a peculiar accident to-day. Ho was filling soda bottles, when a bottle burst and a piece flew up, inflicting a severe cut in his throat, and narrowly escaped the severing of the windpipe. ~ Humphreys, the Wellington cyclist, broke the record between Masterton and Greytown to-day, doing the distance in 37 The’ annual meeting of the inhabitants to receive the report of the Trust Lands Trustees was held to-night. The report showed the income of tho Trust to be nearly .£9OO a year. Three young men were fined .£1 each this morning for disturbing the Salvation Army. mm—
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVX, Issue 3129, 15 May 1897, Page 3
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