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Kumara Times, Issue 247, 20 July 1877, Page 2

In the North casualties from football aie multiplying. Auckland advices state that Mr Oulpan of Te Awamutu had the muscles of his leg torn clean away from the bone. A broken leg for one player and severe shock to the system of another attended the last game in Waikato. In Auckland, on the sth Earle broke his collar bone while enjoying the pleasures of this pastime.

Mr Seymour George, nephew of Sir George Grey, met with an accident at Kawau. He was deer-stalking about a mile from Sir George Grey’s house, with a Westley Richard’s rifle. The rifle, upon being discharged at a fine buck, exploded at the breech. About two inches of the metal were blown clean away, and the flash momentarily blinded Mr George. On recovering from the shock, he found himself very little injured, but his face was marked in several places bv the powder. At the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, a sample of the Poverty Bay kerosene was pronounced to be the best ever tested in America—its superiority consisting in the large per centage of lamp oil and paraffin it contained. A Telegraph Station is now open at Horndon Junction in the County of Selwyn.