NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

BROKEN NECK RECOVERY. LONDON, Sept. 18. Air Herbert Gray, the son of a Hol-ton-le-Aloor (Lines) farmer, has been successfully treated at Lincoln Hospital for a broken neck, which he received through a heavy fall from steps leading to a granary some months ago. The local doctor’s examination at the time revealed that the vertebrae of the neck had been dislocated.

Exceptional precautions were tal on to guard against movement a lien l e wits taken to Lincoln for treatm- nr. as it was realised that a single joit meant instant death. The special treatment, resulted in the very gradual improvement, and the news of his recovery brought doctors from London and other parts of the country to see him.

RUN AAV AY GIRL. LONDON. Sept. iB. Gladys Gill, 19. a shop assistant, of Addiseombe-gardens. .Margate, who had been missing from her home for six weeks, was charged at Hendon yesterday with stealing clothing from a house in District-roail. Sudbury, Afiddlesex, and obtaining food and lodging to the value of £7 by false pretences.

AA'hen arrested she said: “Having spoilt all my money, T took lodgings at Sudbury. 1 kept indoors as much as possible, as my photograph and description have appeared in the newspapers.”

The father said she was a good girl, and he did not know her reason for running away. She was bound O'er.

SEASIDE KNIFE SCENE. LONDON, Sept. 18. Holiday makers on the eastern beach at Brighton yesterday were horrified to see a man walk down a groyne, make several slashes at his throat with ■ a knife and then, with blood streaming from his wounds jump into the sea. Almost immediately, however, he staggered out of the water and collapsed on the beach. His wounds were dressed by a policeman, and he was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital and detained. The ptan, who gave the name of

Frank Ackers, aged 72, said that he had come from Lancashire. ARMY MANOEUVRES. LONDON. Sept. 18. About a thousand motor-lorries, of all sir.es and makes, were assembled on the Royal Army Service Corps parade ground at Aldershot yesterday afternoon. They are to take part in the Army manoeuvres next week and arc all commercial vehicles belonging to private firms from whom they have been hired, with tho drivers, to form the supply trains of the various columns tha'l move out on .Monday from their standing camps in Hants, Wilts, and Dorset to concentrate for the operations. Iho vehicles were classified and allotted to th eir respective columns, j and the drivers were given blankets ami identity discs.

3-YKARS-OLD GIRL RIDER. LONDON, September 18. Modern agricultural shows are very versatile, and the prevailing idea among societies to-day is to crowd into a programme as many phases as possible, amazingly different in many respects. but all having some hearing "Ron the industry. The Nottinghamshire Society’s exhibition, which ended to-dav at Wollaton Park, Nottingham, has lieen no exception to the new rule, but lew spectators can have expected :i ]>erlorninnce of ponv riding by a child of three, named Peggy Ward, the daughter of Mr and Mrs IV. A. Ward, a Nottingham yarn merchant, of Mnpperle.v Park.

She was strapped upon the animal, but though .she has only been riding lor six weeks she had sufficient confidence to turn and wave to her parents as she passed them.

Shi l was not among the prizewinners, hut she was presented with a basket of fruit. Peggy’s brother Philip, who has only been riding for nine months, was also a oompetitior. The first award went to Mr Percy Bradley, of Oakham, for Diana, while -Mr F. S. Morris’s Divan, ridden by V. Irnchlood, was a good second.

In the riding class for children unde LI, .Mr Bradley’s Diana, again earriei "If the first award, with Mr Hearth, oi Uondhou.se Eaves, second.