INTENSE COLD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1133, 22 May 1911, Page 5

INTENSE COLD.

UNPLEASANT RAILWAY JOURNEY. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, May 21. Passengers by Saturday's Main Trunk express from Wellington to Auckland suffered much discomfort on the journey, owing to the Railway Department patting on - an ordinary first-class carriage instead of the usual steam-heated ones that are run on the Main Trunk line. After leaving Ohakune, in the upper levels, the air was v«xy chilly, and thoso who were unfortunate enough to travel in the car iu question found the journey very unpleasant, ■ especially during tho early hours of Sunday morniug, when tho cold was intense. Certainly chemical footwarmers were put in at the commencement of the journey, but instead of being renewed at Ohakune, they were allowed to remain, and, consequently, became cold when they were most needed. Remarks were heard on all tides regarding the neglect by tho Department of tho travelling public. Further, there was only one first-class non-smoker besides the two sleepers on the train, and women wore forced to sit in a smoking-car all night. The train was well filled.

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. FELL OFF A TRAMCAR. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Christchurch, May 21. C. Cohen, a .single man, aged 20, employed as a tram conductor, fell off a Limvood ear yesterday morning. He sustained a severe concussion and injuries. He was admitted to the Hospital, where he. is doing fairly well. ■ GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE. Wanganui, May ii. A seventeen-year-old girl, named Nellie Delaney,- committed suicide yesterday afternoon .by jumping into the river. It is said that as the result of chastisement by her father she to, drown herself, and forthwith put tho threat into action. : ' • ' TRAMCAH V. AUTOMOBILE. A tramcar, bound east along Courtenoy Place, and a' big Mercedes automobile got mixed up at the junction, of Taranaki Street with "Conrteiiay Place at about 2.20 p.m. yesterday. The motor-car, which was coming up Lower Taranaki Street, had pulled up to allow pedestrians to pass along the footpath between Nidd's corrur and the Egmont Bjotel, and, just as it- was moving ahead to round into Manners Street, and before it could elear the tramline, a double-decked tramcar (No. 5), bound for Oriental Bay, struck it fairly hard on the footboard and n«ar the rear <loor, and carried it about twenty feet along the track before it pulled up. The chauffeur stated that ho was going nt a rate not exceeding three miles an hour, havjng pulled up only 12 or 15 feet away to allow people to pass. Tho footboard of the automobile was smashed, tho tonneau was bent in, one of the ribs of the cover was smashed, and after the accident the car did not run as true as before. The traincar also sustained slight damage. MOTOR-CAR RUNS INTO A COW. , A rather unpleasant experience befell several members of "The Whip" Company, aa they were returning from a. motor drive, shortly after 6 o'clock last evening. The party were in a taxi-cab, and were coming along tho Hutt Road, between Hutt and Petone, wlien tho car collided with a cow which was standing on the road. Tho occupants were thrown out by the sudden jolt, but luckily no one was seriously injured. A little boy had his shoulder hurt, and a. gentleman suffered slight injury to ono of his knees. The cow was none the worse for the bumping, but tho motor-car was slightly damaged. > ,

A seaman on the s.s. lonic, named Theodore Davidson, aged 32, unmarried, slipped and fell down the companionway on that vessel. Ho was admitted to the Hospital at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and was found to have sustained concussion of the spmc and kidneys.

Whilst looMning a steel wedge in connection with the work of overhauling the Greyinonth drcclgp Mawhera at the Wellington Patent Slip on Thursday eveniiif, Mr. John Faterson (manager) met with a painful accident. lie was knocking the wodg<;, when suddenly it flew out and etniclc him on the chin,. fracturing his i? w , - Aftcr bein " atlen ded to by Dr. Collins, Mr. Paterson was removed to a private hospital.

Dr. A. M'Arthur, City Coroner, held an inquest at 12 Oxford Terrace on Saturday morning, concerning tho death of a 16months old boy named Donald Lewis M'Gillivra.y, who died on Friday. The evidence showed that death was the result of an attack of diarrhoea whilo teething, and u verdict was returned accordingly.