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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 34, 4 November 1907, Page 2

Many society ladies of Texas aro:having wild pigs trained.as drawing-rooni nets.. ; According to statistics compiled by a.Now York physician, it is estimated that 20 per,, cent, of tho population of the' United States wear spectacles. '' . -...,,■ ■...'•.■ . . A peculiar accident occiu'rod on- the' Kai- ,, para railway lino, between Waitakerei and Avondale. As the train from Helensvillo/, was proceeding along at a. fair pace, says ; Auckland "Herald," tho door of:n'ran containing, lish became detached. Then" it' col-; tided with the adjoining carriages, while; several of the windows wero smashed, and' tho woodwork of the carriage was somewhat; damaged. 'There were a-number of ladies in; tho'carriage adjoining the van, and when tho doo rfell against tho window and then grazed along the side of tho carriage they became considerably alarmed. A man stand- . ing on the platform at the rear of the first carriage had a narrow escape. He had his. hat knocked off,'and, besides receiving a slight knock on the head, narrowly escaped being precipitated from the platform. Soriio of the passengers on the tram who saw the van stated that portions from which tho. door became detached were rotten, and "a ■sample of the rolling stock provided for Kaipara railway."