CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT,
(Per Press Association.) CPIRISTCHURCPI, last night.; An elderly man named John Tnulgeon. while getting on the train at Kaapoi to-day, missed his looting and fell on to the rail. His left arm was crushed by a wheel of the carriage passing over it, and had to be amputated.
COLONEL PORTER.
I!, is understood here that Lieuten-ant-Colonel Porter has been appointed to the command of Ihe Canterbury Volunteer District in place of Colonel Webb, who has been transferred to Wellington. INFEOTIOUS DISEASES., The Hospital Board has agreed to open Ihe Bottle Lake Hospital for Ihe reception of convalescent scarlatina patients. This action is intended to relieve the pressure on the aeecn.mndation at. the Christchurch Hospital until more settled arrangements can be made.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 827, 27 February 1903, Page 3
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