The Kumarai Times has been informed since the accident at Messrs Wilson and Company's sawmill ou Thursday morning tliat there is a boiler within a hundred miles of Kumara having the safety valve chained down, and has been so for some time, the boiler being at work all along. "T/iu Titmk l<?aJ3JS that this sort of thing is not uncommon. "'•-;.. The Premier's memory for 3.'& West Coasters whom he knew in "the roaring days" is proverbial. It was once- more exemplified at Rangiora. All Rangiora deserted its hearth and home to welcome him at the railway station, and Mr Seddon was besieged by an admiring and curious multitude. Afteu he had let fall the usual honeyed phrases concerning the bonny children, the comely matrons, and the sturdy settlers, he paused a moment as his eyes gleamed with recognition. Amongst the crowd was a well known local character called "Jim" — just plain Jim — who has fiddled for years at local festivities. And the Pre> mier turned to him with a beam : "It gives me greater pleasure than ever to see my old friend Jim," he said; "we knew each other on the Coast years ago, when I used to trip the light fantastic — and I can do it a bit even now — Jim always used to play the fiddle;" and the light of reminiscence kindled in the Premier's eye. This littie : touch of nature made the whole- crowd' kin, and a. spontaneous cheer vpiced its sympathy. The New York Tribune, in recording the arrest of officers of the Western Federation of Miners on a charge of murder, prints some extraordinary details regarding the mode of assassination followed in the mining regions. It says : — "The present arrests in Idaho are due to the confession of one Henry Orchard, a member of the union, who acknowledges murdering ex-Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho., recently, and dynamiting fourteen non-union miners at a railway station at Independence, Col., seven years ago. Of his confession, Governor Gooding, of Idaho, says : 'When it is made public in detail, it will shock civilisation.' Orchard's method, typical of this dvaiiui of crime, deserves description. A bomb was planted under the gate of the Governor's house. A little screw was attached to the gate, and means supplied for making a quick connection with a string from the gate to the bomb. One end of this string was tied to the cork of a» bottle containing sulphuric acid, hidden underground. This bottle was placed on the top of a bomb. By the opening of the gate the string jerked the cork out of the bottle. With the cork drawn, the acid in the bottle ran out upon one hundred giant caps which had been saturated with bicarbonate of potash and sugar. The mixture of the chemicals started a spark and caused the explosion of the bomb. Precisely the same sort of bomb was planted by Orchard, according t6 his confession, under the gate of Justice Gabbert, of the Supreme Court of Colorado, who had ventured to vindicate the dignity of the law against miners' dynamite. It failed to work, but the police have since the confession dug it up as corroborative evidence. Another machine was planted in a vacant lot in Denver usually crossed daily by Justice Goddard, of the Supreme Court. In this case the string was tied to a purse. It was planned that the justice should pick up the purse, and thus spring the trap. Another man did it, and died." , ■i \
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Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 1
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