TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Trun I'UESS ASSOCIATION.] A TOOTH ALTAR'S DRATH. AUCKLAND. This Day. Adolphiis Theodore 1 3 1i s>1 1 . aged l2(i, died yesterday as the result of injuries received during a foot bull niiatch on iSaturday. Hush, who was playing in a League third-class fixture, collided with another player and fell with him to the ground. A third player fell on top of him. and Hush was unable to rise. The doctor pronounced the injury to he r.n affection of the spine. TTMARU ACCIDENTS. TIM AH!'. This Day. Wm. Thomas, a fanner at Gerald inc. was found dead on Saturday. He wont out hare shooting, and tin gun was found in the fence with the triggers caught in the wire. It is supposed he was dragging the gun through the fence when it went ofl ajid blew almost half of his Tiead off. Fie was aged .30 years, and belonged to Lincoln. A collision between a motor and <'i trap took place on Saturday night. Mrs Wolls and her daughter! who were in the trap, were rendered unconscious. HOOKS AND PIGEONS. WANGANUT, This Day. At the Police Court this morning four men were charged with playing "two-up" in the vicinity of the Railway yards last Friday. Two spielers, "William Stevens and Archibald Neville, were .sentenced respectively to six weeks ami three months imprisonment, and two "pigeons" from tbe country whom they were plucking wore mulcted in fines of £2 each or fourteen days' imprisonment.