SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 118, 19 February 1881, Page 3

SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT.

- .--.. r .- AUCKLAND, Fbidat. ■■yjL painful accident has occurred at TotahIdlf'a, Northern Wairoa. A number of telegraph poles were stacked on the top of an embanknient, 'parallel with the public road. Five children were.plajm^ round the poles, two were seated under the bank and the other three were running rojhd, when one bfj them stumbled against the poles. Ths outside pole turned or*r and draopped down the bank atiking one of the children and hurting her ba,ck, and instantly killing the other, a fine' little girl, three years ,old, daughter of Mr. Saunders. At the inquest the jury expressed their opinion that the Government were to blam* for the careless manner the. telegraph poles were stacked. Had the poles' Keen on end to the bank all would hare been well.

; 'TNEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. , -The Parihaka.land offered bj the Governiment to-day met with no sale ; not a single bid, and rery few attended. • * 'Tha[Ur*nui correspondent of the Herald writes thai 1 tomeJEi^ropeans a,re afc : work at fcfokM dftaring'latvd for but northing can bA'doVfjß' legally- ih^Ke- rtiatter uatil the 'native title is. indiTidualilßod. Plympwh-'vaiervtofks loan has been negotiated, and tender! fox the Work Wifi be called fojvat once. ; n • .;. >; ,;