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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 9

A peculiar accident happened in the Extended mine on Monday, says tho Huntly correspondent of an Auckland paper. Benjamin Cleghorn,' who was working behind, received the full force of the backward swing of his mate's pick, a litt-lo below tho left anglo of the jaw, the point of the pick penetrating the neck, and entering tho mouth, wliero it dislodged a tooth in its passage. . Had tho blow been a quarter of an inch lower the jugular vein and tho carotid artery would nave been severed. The injured man was attended by Dr. Macdiarmid, senr. The request of tho residents of Goldie's Brae for tho construction of stops from Grosvenor Torrace to Main Wadestown Eoad is to be considered by tho City Council in connection'with tho estimates for noxt year. The Salvation Army is now engrossed in its yearly Self-Denial appeal. ■ The (livid Fathers have given permission for a general street colicction to take place next Saturday, and tho thoroughfares will bo alivo with persuasive lassies with their collection boxes. The response to the appeal last year was most gratifying, and this yoar the hope is to do a little better. "During the last quarter of a century the value of the benefactions tho city and provinoo of Auckland have received from private individuals totals something like a million of money," remarked Mr. G. J. Garland, chairman of tho Auckland Education Board, on Wednesday morning when moving, on behalf of the children, that a hearty voto of thanks be passed and conveyed to Mr. A. M. Myers for his generous and handsomo gift of land for a'park in tho city. Mr. Garland said thero were in every country men of wealth and means, but not many who would give in tho liberal manner of which Auckland had experienced. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds never fails, Is. Od."