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New Zealand Mail, Issue 14, 29 April 1871, Page 6

Dusky Athletes. —At the Warrnambool Caledonian Gathering, Pompey, an aboriginal, won the leap, the hurdle, and the flat race. Co-OPEBATION. —The civil servants in Sydney have been endeavoring to establish cooperative stores. . Land Tbansfer Act. —We observe in the Gazette among the Christchurch applicants to property put under the Land Transfer Act the name of the Hon. John Hall. He applies for three seperate properties containing respectively 100, 50, and 20 acres. Shocking Accident, —An Adelaide paper says that lately, at Litttle Hampton, the fine little son, two years old, of Mrs Knight, a widow, was playing in his grandfather’s yard, and got close to the connecting-rod of a chaffcutter when at work his brother was driving the horses, and observing the child’s clothes and body drawn like a ball into the machiuery, instantly stopped the horses. Cries instantly brought Mrs Berwick, who acted promptly when others had not courage to take the child from its entangled position. On the youngster’s removal blood was issuing from the eyes, nose, ard mouth, and the body was horribly disfigured. Although he is suffering from contused wounds over the region of the abdomen, a compound fracture of the left thigh, and another of the right arm near the shoulder, the little fellow endures the agony with wonderful patience, and is expected to recover. The mother’s position with seven children to maintain, is pitiful. „