ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND IN OEETI RIVER. (By Telcsrapli—Press Association.) Invercargill, June 17. Til© body of Jane Acker,'a widow, aged 66 years, was found in the Oreti Rivor on Thursday evening. Deceased, who worked as a housekeeper, had been in ix>or health, but had not hinted at hiicide. SUDDEN DEATH. , Christchurch, June 17. Pa,trick Maher, who had recently come from Rangiora to Christchurch, diedsuddeaily in the city yesterday afternoon. BODY FOUND IN IJ ARBOUR. Auckland, June 17. The body of an elderly man, with grey hair and grey beard, was found in the harbour to-night. Up till a late hour the body had not been identified. THE MODERN PRESS. » AMUSING SPEECH BY JUDGE piliEY. About 150 members of the London Press Club and guests wero present at the Criterion Restaurant at the club's annual dinner. Mr. Herbert 13. Jewell presided. The guests included Judge Parry, Mr. W./ Pett .Ridge, Mr. Fisher Cnwin, and Mr. J. B. Mulhollaud. Judge Parry, in proposing the toast' of the club, said it was of course a nervous moment for a mere provincial like himself to address the intellect of England. (Laughter.) But when ho noticed on tho kindly invitation that tho secretary sent him thatjtheir homo was in Wine Office Court ho felt th&jt ho would be at houio among them. It was very charming to think of tlie press of England in connection with wine. If they would turn up their concordance of tho Bible—he did not suppose they bad ever time to read the original—and looked up the word "press/' they would find 'Tress, see wine." (Laughter and applause.) And thero was a sort of consonancy, as Charles Lamb would say, between wine and press. Indeed, if they picked up a wine incrchanfs catalogue they would think tbat some of the epithets wero applicable to tho press. They say the "light," tho "dry," tho "reliable," and tho "tawny." (Laughter.) Ojio hoppful thing about tho English press was that it was not written by Englishmen—at least, not largely. Ilence it was a great power. (Laughter.) They saw a great Prime Minister, a great English barrister, instructed by a Welsh solicitor on behalf of an Irish client. (Loud laughter.)