NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1918, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO WELL-WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR. CAR GOES OVER A BANK | WELLINGTON, this day. Dr. George Saunders, of Johnsouville, met with a serious accident on Saturday, resulting in a broken thigh and fractured skull. He had been attending a patient at Tawa Flat, and was returning homeward in the darkness of early morning, a man going ahead with a lamp to light the road. Somehow the car got out of control and crashed down a forty-foot bank. Dr Saunders was subsequently brought to Wellignton, and his skull operated upon. DEAD BODY FOUND. AUCKLAND, this day. The dead body of Harold S. Thomson, 47, missing since Friday, has be'en fjound in 3Jay. THE LIQUOR QUESTION. AND WET CANTEEN; WELLINGTON, June 8. The executive of the National Council of the New Zealand Alliance resolved that a petition be presented to Parliament next session praying for legislation rto .-ettiiv- rfoll (to be taken this year on the basis of the National Efficiency Board's proposal for the complete and! immediate

probition of the liquor traffic on a simple majority vote; that the executive views with grave concern information just received that wet canteens teens were- prc-vide.i upon several transports wViioh re«cfei'tiy brought returned soldiers to the Dominion, and considers such action a most serious violation of the declared policy of the Dominion ,and calls upon the Gvernment to take steps to put an immediate stop to this practice.

A NEW STAR DISCOVERED. RESULT OF SOME STELLAR CATASTROPHE. WANGANUI, this day. Mr. J. T .Ward, director of the Wanganui Observatory, reports that word has been received of the discovery of ■a o wstar in constellation Aquarius, Observations at Wanganui show its brilliancy is greater than a star of the first magnitude. Mr. Ward says some great stellar catastrophe must have taken place. It may be that a dark star has crashed into a cloud of cosmic matter, and thus generated this enormous outburst of light and heat. It may be so far away that possibly it happened hundreds of years ago. Its light was thought to be travelling sis hundred and seventy million miles per hour. It would take all this time to reach us. Changes are taking place in its light as viewed by the spectroscope.