AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 193, 22 August 1901, Page 3

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

THE WILKINS CASE,

(Special to Times.) Auckland, last night. In the Wilkins case, Mr Justice Connolly said : “ Illegal operations on women are being performed every day ; yet they are hardly ever detected; because women who recover, as ninety-nine out of every hundred do, keep it quiet, and 1 dead women toll no tales.’ ” The Wilkins case will be reheard next Monday. Mr W. R. Bloomfield, a well-known visitor to Gisborne, is one surety for £750. CHAMPION BILLIARDIST. Mr John Roberts, champion billiardist of the world, returned from Rotorua this afternoon, and at eight o’clock this evening began the first of a series of matches to be played against well-known local amateurs. The game this evening will bo 1000 up, Roberts conceding 650 points. DR POMARE. Dr Pomare, tho Maori health officer, is doing good work amongst sick Maoris who have assembled at the Maori meeting house at tho Thames. Tho complaints extend from dislocated joints to pneumonia. The visitors have the greatest faith in the capabilities of the doctor. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.. During the trial of Mr Kenneth Boyd's patent fire escape yesterday an unfortunate accident occurred. The escape, which consists of a canvas shute, made with a number of angles to break the fall of those using it, had been fitted to the top window of the five-storeyed warehouse of Messrs Brown, Barrett, and Co., Customs street East, and had been successfully tested for half an hour before tho accident occurred. So successfully did the escape work, and so easy was the descent, that a number of persons tried it several times. The accident was not attributable to any flaw in tho invention. It appears that a man named Samuel Bowden attempted to descend through the shute with a laborer’s hook in his belt. This hook caught iu the canvas, and in wriggling loose Bowden tore the side of the shute about three feet from the top. He continued his descent, and while ho was still in the tube another man named J. Green entered it. The added weight ripped tho shute right round, and tho two men, both encased in the canvas, were precipitated to tho ground, Green falling from tho height of the fourth storey, and Bowden from the level of the second. In the fall Green struck Bowden’s head with his foot, inflicting a nasty wound. On the men being extricated from the canvas it was found that Green, who had tho longer fall, was uninjured, and that Bowden's injuries were confined to the wound on the head, which was, however, pretty serious. Tho injured man was removed to the Hospital. EMPLOYMENT OF LASCARS. The steamer Umballa, owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company, arrived from Calcutta yesterday, bringing a large cargo for this port, consisting of 29,754 sacks of bonedust, 589 bales of gunnies, 1108 bags of tapioca, 50 cases of pines, 310 bags rice, 500 drums oil, 935 -V cases oil, 160 cases wax, 12 casks oil, 12 squares teak, 566 chests tea. The crew consists almost entirely of Hindoo lascars. AUCKLAND FOOTBALL TEAM. Mr F. S. Murray, sole selector of the Auckland representative team, has chosen the following team to play against the Thames on Saturday : —Full-back, D. Sutherland ; three-quarters, G. W. Smith, McKenzie, Absolum ; half-backs, D. Hay, Kiernan, Gerrard; forwards, Doran (wings), C. Brady, G. Tyler, H. Wilson, A. Wilson, E. McGregor, Bakewell, and Bonella. Emergencies Asher (back), Nicholson (forward). The Thames team will be as follows: Full-back, Newdick ; three-quarters, McLean, Buckland, Kingham; five-eighths, R. McGregor ; half, Houghton; forwards, S. McGregor, A. Cameron (wings), G. Smith, Huddleston, MeDuff, McPike, Mullins, G. Smith, and Bennett. Emergencies : Jackson, Dufty, and Meehan, backs; Cooper, Renshaw, and White, forwards.