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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 259, 6 November 1906, Page 2

Henry Smith, who was thrown from a dray ou the railway wharf yesterday from the shock of the impact of two runaway horses, sustaining in his fall a slight concussion of the brain and several broken ribs, id reported by the hospital authorities to-day to be progressing as well as can be expected. The first piles for the new ferro-con-crete granary for the Northern Roller Milling Company, and for Messrs. Lichtenstcin and Arnoldson's gum store adjoining, were driven in Quay-st. on the vacant allotments botween the Roller Mills and Eiidciin's Buildings last evenin." and to-day. The piles, which are 4Sf't. lons, \veigh 0 tons three hundredweight and are each capable of supporting weight of 250 tons without crushin'. One hundred and forty will be driven foT the two buildings, one of which will be four and the other live Btoieys high. The pile hammer weighs 3 tons, 8 cwt, and the pile driver is SOft hi"li, the impact of a 12ft. fall being 10-1 tons. A four-foot fall drove the pile* six incurs each drop, the total depth driven bfin- 30 fact. The building uh.Mi completed about April next, will be the first feiTo-concrete structure m t-ie Southern Hemisphere. \ concert Tn connection with St. James' Cricket Club will be given in St. James' llall to-uiorrmv evening. A concert in aid of the Father Walter Memorial Church will be -riven by members of Sit. John's choir, Parnell 1 ,. in Cairns' Hall, Elleralie, to-morrow even-