TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PKtt PBIBB ASriCUTION.] AYKLL-KXOWX SKTTLIvI!\S I) LOATH. DIES AFTIOIt AN OPKHATJON. WAN(;.VXI'I, May 'IS. About one o'clock mi Tuesday a tciephoiie iiic.-Nige from ivakatihi. about tliirty niilci distant, stated that Mr Tim O'Xeill, a well-known settler had bei-ii grievously injured in the htoinach. The injured iiiiin was beinu; cariei! to the niaiii road, and a doctor and a priest were summoned from Wan.aaiiui. A motor far containing a doctor, Father \'iband.O'.Veill's brother and a chafFeiir, left about two a.m., and all went well till Aborioldie was reached, where the car went over a bank 20 feet below the road. It btniclc ;i manuka tree, the occupants being thrown out. O'Neill sustained concussion of the brain and the others were badly shaken. l?ut fer the collision with the tree the car would have gone over a piTcipii e .lO feet deep. The (lector and the priest proceeded to Kaknt'ilii. wh"re an operation was performed and the rites of the church administered to the injured man. -vho died about 10 o'clock. !?et ; cen.:':« Is lieing obsorv<xl. I)iit frniii what can be gathered it appeal's tint !.1...ul n.:l() „., Afomlny pvpii-iri-j: decea-cd was in his room ostensibly for tlli' p'lritrisv of rc-tirinrj to bed when he called out to his "bothers ;iml others in the h'ni.w. .Rushirifr in thr.y found him with :i terrible >i:\k}\ in his stomach. TTe would not imlVah. how (.ho L r as h ;vns made, but re-.lisine thnf, he was dying, lie expressed a wish to ninko a will. NAPfKU - WELLTXfJTON EXPIMSRS. N AIM Ell, This .Day. . A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to protest against the movement to divert the Napier-Wellington express from the Manawatii route ■'backto the Wairarapa. In the courseof discu.-f.ion, it was pointed o ut that while .Vapier people had been agitating for the "speeding up" of the trains with a view to cutting down the time occupied on the journey between Napier and Wellington. the proposed diversion w-iulcl mean extend hi'.: the time fn>i.) {) ] lo , lr>s ;} L ) iniiiiittvio 10 hours.')() minutes. A depuf fTOn was to interview the Eon. .Air Myers to-morrow and emphatically protest against the proposal.