ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

COMMENDABLE PROMPTITUDE. INJURED CONDUCTOR & ' PASSENGERS. Commendable promptitude was shown by passengers oil tlie tramcar on which a conductor was injured by falling from the footboard in Tinakori Road ori Saturday afternoon. The car had just started after a stop near Crieff Stieet when the accident 'happened. The conductor was doing duty on tho footboard and, in coming along, seemed to' miss ono of tlio grips for which lio was reaching, and fell. Two passengers— Mr. C. J. Gwynne, of tlio tolegraph office, and another—at, once "bSled" the motorman and tho car stopped. Four passengers ran back and found that the injured conductor was lying unconscious. The motorman backed the car up to the spot, and the conductor was placed in the back compartment. Mr. Gw3'nno collected tho monoy and tickets and handed them over to a relieving conductor who presently boarded the car and took charge. The car then quitted the ordinary route and ran round Aitken Streot to the Lambton terniinus, whence tlio ambulance could bo summoned. In this manner what seemed at the time to bo a serious' case was dealt with without any unnecessary delay. rTTLE BOY KNOCKED DOWN. CTiaord Vernon, ten years of age, living at Kilbirnie, was knocked down by a motor-bicyclo yesterday. Ho was taken to the Hospital, whero his right leg was found to be broken and his head cut. SAD OCCURRENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, November 3. James Wishart, the six-year-old son of a widow, was drowned in the Taieri River. Hie little fellow was playing with other children on the river bank, near Henley, when the bank gave way. The otlier children tried to render assistance, but wero unsuccessful. • Tho body has not been recovered. Professor 11. N. Dickson gives a horriblv bleak view of the food supply that will bo available for those who have tho misfortuno to ho living a few generation hence. Sir William, Ramsay, says an English paper, told us two years ago how near wo were to the end of our coal supply—l 7 years will probably see it all out. Professor Dickson thinks that, with possible new discoveries, it may last a little longer, but he does not give us more than tlireo centuries. The production of grain is, however, a different problem. Wo have at present vast tracts given over to wheatgrowing, and we have splendid carrying arrangements, by which this is moved about almost always along lines of lititiulc, that is to say, from ono placo of temperate climate to another. When the "curse of the steam engine" has died out for want of fuel wo shall havo a moro even distribution between country and town. Every industrial centre will liavo its own food producing district close around it. The next phase will be the lack of land that can produce wheat even under the most forcing conditions. He thinks that the earth's resources will in less than a century have become fully taxed.