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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 19 October 1907, Page 3

A shocking accident which had a fatal termination occurred on Tuesday morning at the gravel pit, Waiouru (Main Trunk Line), when Hugh McGuckin, while working, had both his legs broken —one above the knee and the other a compound fracture below it, bj* a fall of earth. The unfortunate fellow was brought on to Mataroa by a special train, arriving there at i p.m., where he was met and attended to by Dr E. C. Barnett, who had set out from Taihape to meet him. The sufferer died in transit to the Wanganui Hospital. At the close of his address at Auckland on Thursday night, Mr Ben Tillett was asked to state his opinion on Keir Hardie. He replied : “ Keir Hardie is a very good fellow indeed, and you must not take all the press says for gospel. As a matter of fact, the most important heads and representatives of the press in India, who are in correspondence with our own great papers, have united in a protest about the misrepresentations going on as to the condition of afiaits existing in India. Your excitable member of the Parnell Council has shown himself to be very un-British in his remarks. If Mr Keir Hardie comes here he will be able to make out a good case for himself. (Applause.) As a British subject,” continued Mr Tillett, ‘‘speaking to you as Britishers, I say that when any country dominating another people permits death from starvations of two millions of her subjects in one year, that government is bad, and that capitalism is bad that permits it.” Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has just received a beautiful assortment of runners, cushion covers, fancy table cloths, brush and comb bags, etc., etc., which she bought at exceptionally low prices, being a lot of travellers’ samples. The same are being shown in window.*

He tossed on the bed at midnight As the clock was striking the hour; And he hoped that he soon rid might Of the cough that made him so dour Hot gruel and slops they gave him But such treatment he did abjure, There was only one thing that could save him, ’Twas Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

A delightful drink. SCHNAPPS with lemon water, WOLFE’S and soda-