ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

— 9 FOUND DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 12. At the inquest on Frederick Carroll, aged 65, who was found drowned • in the harbour, a verdict was returned that Carroll committed suicide while his mind was affected by illness and . suffering. The evidence . slwwed that debased had lived on his private means without working. Latterly he had been short of money. TELEPHONE LINESMAN KILLED. By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. Masterton, January 12. A shocking accident occurred on .Weraiti Hill, a jew miles from Masterton, this morning. A young man named Frederick Jackson, telephone linesman, was motoring over the- hill when his car fell over the embankment, and he was crushed beneath it. He was picked up quite dead, his skull being fractured and his lieck apparently broken. He was married only recently. At the inquest this evening a verdict of accidental death was returned. The announcement that an agreement has been completed between Britain and Germauy for the repatriation of all interned civilians over the age of 45 years is causing a good deal of speculation locally on the position (says tho Auckland "Star"), and further news respecting the manner in which -tho agreement is to operate, seeing that it appliea to the whole of the British Empire, will bo awaited' with considerable interest. We have in Now Zealand between 800 and 350 enemy civilians interned on Somes and Motiuhi Islands, and the majority of these aro men of military ago. Tho greater number of these prisoners, however, aro men whose interests arc centred in New Zealand, and who liavo probably no dosiro to leavo the country. Many of them havo families in the. Dominion, and are doubt-less eager for tho end of the war, that they may resumo their lives as citizens of their adopted country. How the agreement cabled will affect such prisoners of war, whother they will be compelled to acccpt repatriation or remain in detention at their own expense; whether the Government will now bo able to make such as elect to romain in internment work to defray tho cost of their maintenance —these and other interesting pointspresent themselves in view of the cabled message. Sir Douglas Haig, who is punctilious in returning the miliary salute as he is strict in exacting.jt. He was'walking up'and down the platform of a small railway station somewhere in France, not long ago, dressed in plain clothes, when a private soldier in uniform, who was walking up and. down, failed to notice him. At length Sir Douglas stepped in front of him and said, "Look here, my man; don't you know who I am?" "No, I don't." "I am Sir Douglas Haig." "Here," cried the private indignantly, ."don't you try'; to come it. Why, if 'Aig 'eard you' say that he'd punch your silly fat 'ead for you." Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., will hold a stock sale at AVaikanae on Thursday next. Mr. F. J". Bertram, land agent, Te Awainutu, inserts , particulars) in tins issue of a grazing farm of 1728 acres which is advertised for sale. Messrs. J. Harris and, Sons, Mart on, advertise a farm property of 81 acres for sale. Particulars appear in the advertisement. '