NEARLY CHOKED

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1808, 14 July 1906, Page 3

NEARLY CHOKED

(P»r P**s» Anodaiion.) Hastings, last night.

An elderly man bad a trying aod exciting expetienoo in a local restaurant yos'erday. While having lunoh a large lump of steak caught in Lis throat, and tbe man was unable to breathe. A doctor was oalled in, who seeing that tbe man was fainting away made an incision io the wiGidpipo with a penknife and allowed tbe za£n to breathe, af erwards extracting tbo obstruction, which was an inch and a half long.

COsK MEMORIAL,

TO BE UNVEILED NEXT OCTOBER

A meeting ef tbe Cook Memorial Comtnittee was held yesterday aftercoop, the Btv. Herbert Williams presiding. There were also present Hie Worship the Mayor (MrJ Townley). Mesdames Town'ey and Coleman, and Messrs F. Harris, J. Q, Cox, W Webb, and W. J. P. Gaudra, boa. secretary. V . 1 ; ' ■ After a lengthy disousefon it was decided that there should bo no pnblio ceremony in connection with the laying of the foundation stone, bat that tbe the oommittee should be devoted towards

makiog tbe unveiling oeremony, whioh baa been fixed for Ootober Btb (the aooi* ivnrMary of Captain Cock’s landfDg in New 'Zialand at Poverty Bay), a matter of

colonial importance. Tfao Chairman (Rev. William’)! the .Major {Mr J. Townley), and Moears A F. Jjhunßcly and W. J. P. GaudiD wero appointed a oommittoo to issue invitations -to-tbe trareilfag oeremony. : ]ji was decided to engage ERa Majesty's Theatre for the evening of October Bth. . The committee appointed Mr Wilsoo architect, and Mr J. R. Little overseer of

• the Winks in progress. The Major.aud Messrs W. Gindin and IF. Harris were appointed a finance ocm-

, mil lee. “ Chairman congratulated members of’ the committee on the progress « biota had been made Altbnngh in ihe opmi. B Of some they might have been slow, B was better ai He bnp-d to sea every fff't madeto make thp gathering of October 8 b tV'shcOess it deserved to be./' The oonti’tctora for the memorial, Messrs McNab and Mason, of Anckland, I?are making exo-lhnt prrgro s with the wo>k, and will be finished some time the date of the unveiling oeremony * - It ia expeo/od that the monument will be v landed on the Giaborue wharf during the oomiog week,