NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 994, 14 September 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. The subscriptions to the fund to provide a statue of Sir John Logan Campbell, to be erected at Cornwall Park, Sir John’s gift to the people, at present amount to about £4OO. Altogether £ISOO will be wanted. Up to the present all subscriptions have been unsolicited, and they are still coming in daily. Waihi, Saturday. Last night two men, Thomas Owen and Charles Lloyd, were engaged in removing the fastenings of some neavy pipes, when they slipped and struck the men a severe blow. Owen was hurled off a staging into a space loft below, and struck a narrow staging across the shaft, descending 300 ft. In another moment he would have rolled off and fallen into the abyss, but two men at work there made a grab at his clothes, and caught him in time. Both Owen and Lloyd were considerably injured, the latter in the knee and the former in the back. Later. —Further particulars of the accident in the Waihi Company’s No. 5 shaft last night show that the staging on which Owen landed in falling consisted of a single 9 inch plank, and had there been the slightest deviation in the manner of landing on the plank nothing could have saved a continued fall to the bottom of the shaft, 300 feet down.

PALMERSTON N., last night. A meeting last night of the Palmerston North Working Men’s Club approved of the purchase of a central site in the town, and will erect new club buildings thereon at a cost of £2OOO, WELLINGTON, last nighty Major Coyle, officer in charge of the Auokland and Wellington submarine mining stations, has retired from the Public Service.