Untitled

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 6

The promptitude of the di'iver of the goods train which left Wellington at 4 a.m. yesterday averted a serious railway' accident at Feathcrston. The prints at the crossing at the entrance to the railway yard, it is stated,' had not been placed in proper position to run the goods train on to No. 2 track, so as to allow the Masterton to Wellington express to cross, and the consequence was that train which had just ai rived from Wellington crashed into a railway milk van. and! some wagons laden with goods, despite the' fact that the driver of the engine attached to tho goods train promptly clapped on tlie emergency brakes. Tlie milk van, tho frrr.t part of which was smashed by the ccllision, was, with the goods wagon, driven right through the goods shed. The engino was slightly damaged.

In a letter to liis parents in Dannevirke, Mr. Harry Bateman, who ivent to China some four years ago on missionary work with tho China Inland Mission. and who has for the last .eighteen months been acting as disncnser and secretary of the Men's and Women's Wilson Memorial Hospitals, Pinpyang, Sliansi,_ says: "So far as I can judge, t.h'e Cltincse are, generally speaking, somewhat pro-German; 'out only the scholarly class is at all able to think outside of 'food atul sleep,' and nowadays the monarchical movement is taking his silent attention—silent because ho dare not express his opinion, for the morrow may not know where he has gone. It is-a savage laud, and it is marvellous what; a power Yuan-Slii-Kai lias over the whole country."