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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4868, 6 February 1894, Page 3

THE SALE OF ALL SALES ! STILL PEOGEESSES AT THE HALL, HI GH STREET, CHRISTCHURCH, etl lm P<>ssiblem New Zealand hitherto; for S'n Si aSS G °° ds are beto * at quotations A Lady's Fashiouable Jacket for Is 6d, the usual price 7s6d A Lady s Fashionable Cape for 2s 6d, the usual price 10s o " H<!Mt^^^««^»»lMl,K«..l BM . to 3,. t ,», Um iti « c!o », WE BISISIBUTE £20S AMONGST OUE BEST CTSTOHEIiS. SHAW, ROBINSON & CO., THE HALL, HIGH STREET, CHRISTCHUECH, X7S3

At Geraldine, on Sunday morning, Mr Peter Henry M'Shane, a farmer residing at Geraldine Flat, went from his house to a stable to get his horae and trap. After some time had passed Mra M'Shane went to the stable, and found her husband lying dead, It is conjectured that a bloodvessel broke in the head. Shocking cage accidents have occurred in the winding shafts of two Welsh collieries. At the Naval Colliery, Penycraig, two cages oollided while passing in tho shaft 225 yarda £rom the surface. Three men were jerked down the pit and instantaneously killed, and another, essaying to slide down the guide-rope, fell and sharsd the same fate. Six men were being drawn up in the Bodringall pit, Khondda, when the rope broke and the c»ge fell— fortunately nob a great distance— to the bottom. The men in the cage were seriously injured, and a miner who happened t> b* engaged ab the bottom of the shaft waa inttintly killed. The facts in both cases Bii£goet that tho plant was defect ye oc thyrn was negligence touiawhere.

RiPtH Shooting.— The Temnka, Aehburton and Timaru. rifle corps have fired In the competition for Major Moore'a shield. The Waimate corps Vfftß unable through various causes to Compete. The total Bcorea were : Temukn, 391, average per man 391; Aghburton 389, average 389 ; Timaru 487, average 487. It is probable that the Ttinaru team will be thrown out, having fired on Feb. lj inßtead of during the month of Januai-jv and without scrutineers from anothercompany as the rules provide. The ahirid has to ba Wo'rs three times in succession.. ( v four tiniPß iv. 'the !\?grega'e.