TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

I PHR PRRfcO ASSOCIATION ] CARTERTON CITIZEN DEAD. CARTERTON, This Day. Obituary—George William Deller. a prominent resident of the town, and formerly mayor for a period of nine years. He died last night, aged 59. LIGHTNING AT I'ALMER.iTON. PALM'ER»STON N., This Day. A terrific thunderclap startled local residents at about 7 o'clock this morning. It was discovered later tli.;\t lightning had struck two big trees in Rangitikei street and splintered them to matchwood, bored a big hole in the earth, ripped up tie footpath, and burst the kerbing. No one was hurt. A severe hailstorm was experienced during tlie night. OAR HIT BY LOCOMOTIVE. DANNEVIRKE, This Day. At the dangerous Piripiri crossing, shortly belore 1 o'clock, a car was being driven by a young man named Dean, of Wellington. It contained Miss E. Sweetapple, of Napier. When crossing the line is was struck by an engine and smashed to matchwood Dean was seriously injured about the head. He was brought to Dannevirke for medical attention. Miss Sweetapple had a miraculous escape, being practically uninjured. Dean died four hours after admission to the Dannovirke Hospital. DANNEVTRKE, This Day. Regarding the motor fatality at Piripiri crossing yesterday, it transpires that Roy Horace Dean (son of the late Edwin Harland Dean, solicitor, of Wellington) was returning from a visit to his mother in Wellington. Ho had been presented with a car, and was motoring through to Napier. Miss Sweetapple was his fiancee. She came from Napier and joined Dean at Dannevirke. She was in his company only half an hour when the accident occurred. An inquest will be held to-morrow, and the funeral will take place at Wellington on Friday. Deceased was 21 years of age. TROTTING MEN AT LAW. CHRJiSTCHPRCH, This Day. At the Supreme Court, in the case of lask£r v. Clinton, a. claim for £600 damages, arising out of the scratching of the trotting mare Lady Clare for all engagements at the spring meeting of the Methopolitan Trotting Club, the jury found for plaintiff, for the sum of'£3so. Taskor was the trainer, and Clinton the ownor, of the mare, and they had an agreement : share her winnings, lasker failed to acce.pt for the mare in tlie New Zealand Trotting Cup. for which Clinton had backed lier. Clinton retaliated by scratching the mare for all engagements