PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 14

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

———-? (From Our Special Correspondent.) Palmerston North, March lL A single man named John Dempsey, about forty years of age, met with such injuries from a fall of earth while working in a gravel pit near Kimbolton on Thursday afternoon, that he succumbed a couple of hours after being admitted to the Palmerston Hospital last night. Ho was in a very serious plight when admitted to the institution, /an exmination showing a compound fracture of the leg below the knee, a dislocated . ankle, Injuries to several ribs, and a number of cuts and severe bruises, and he was also suffering from shock. Deceased was a stranger in the district. Aa inquest Will be held. ■... ' / -. Judge Sim and Messrs. Scott and M'Cullough, presided over a meting of the Compensation Court this morning. In the case A. Pedersen versus the Hawke's Bay Dairy Company, claim .£365, -an order was made by consent that claimant be allowed to take ,£IOO out of ■ moneys paid into Court by defendants, plaintiff's claim to be submitted in the meantime to the Government Actuary for calculation and report. - The Dannevirke. compensation case, Cole v. Corr, .was adjourned till next sitting of the Court, at PalmerstonThe master bakers of New Zealand were in'conference at the.offices of the Mana- , watu Employers' Association'all day yesterday and to-day. The executive of "the association has been removed from Wellington to Auckland. Itossrs. G. Kendall and J. G. Wilson, of the Manawatu County Council, aiid A. Spiers, Foxton Borough Council, have been elected unopposed as members of the Palmerston . Hospital 'Board;: