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(Will FHESS AGENCY. FOXTON. Friday. A serious accident happened on the railway between Karcre and Oroua Bridge on Wednesday night. The engine was thrown off the rails, and a truck and passenger carriage raised into the air. Fortunately they were not upset, or the consequences would have been very serious, as the line is very dangerous at the point where the accident occurred, The train was delayed for two hours. The cause of the mishap was some eattle sfe-aying on the line. James Hawkins, aged 17 years, an orphan scut hero from Wellington by the Police is supposed to bo drowned atPaiaki, M'auawatu lliver in a tiny shell canoe. The hoy lias not been seen since. The Police arc searching for the body. ' AUCKLAND. Friday C-e Lias, proprietor of the Theatre lioyal, obtained judgment against one of a party of live publicans in the vicinity of the theatre, who promised to pay him a £1 a week each while he kept the theatre open. Cue who signed the agreement tried to get out of it, and the others made joint cause with him, but the Court upheld the agreement. ■ The Herald attacks Mr Macandrew's proposal for a direct steam service, and also the conferring of titles on Fox and Stafford without consulting tbcGovcrnmcntofthe colony. Three men, said to have been 'working on the night shift in the Waikato Company's mine, ceased work to get sonic refreshment about six this morning, and were about to resume work in the mine, when the roof caved in. Joseph McMimi had his back broken by a great mass of coal, and died on the spot; hut Montgomery and another man escaped uninjured. McMimi was a most experienced miner, and was brother of the acting Magistrate, He was unmarried. WANGANDI. Friday. Kereopa, a notorious ruffian from Waitotara. who some little time ago threatened some of the settlers that if they came on a certain piece of land he would serve them in the same manner as Hiroki had served McLean, was brought before the Eesidcnt Magistrate, The case lasted two days. He was committed to take hts trial at the Su preme Court to be held in Wanganui. Bai was allowed-lhmself in £IOOO, and two sureties of &1000; but no bail being forthcoming, he was sent to gaol.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 217, 21 July 1879, Page 2
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