ACCIDENT TO A DRAG.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8453, 1 June 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENT TO A DRAG.

By Telegraph—Press Association. TIMARU, May 31. A four-in-hand drag, with sixteen people, going to a country concert, was smashed up before getting out of town tornight. The reins are supposed to have become fouled and the driver lost control of the team, which turned round and bolted down Beverley Hill, and turning a sharp corner to . town, capsized the vehicle. Miss Foley, of Dunedin, sustained a fracture of the skull. The driver (Johnson) was very much bruised, as was a Miss O'Connor. Her brother had three and a half inches of hat pin extracted from his leg. The whole party were much shaken.

Our Ihuraua correspondent writes ithat snow fell for three ..hours on Monday at Ihuraua.

The Millers' Association at Auckand has advanced the price of pollard, which now stands at JSS 10s per ton both for local and shipping orders — -an advance of 10s, ,possibly out of .sympathy with the rise in wheat.

An Auckland.Press Association telegram states that the Waihi Company's May return is £64,196 from 28,382 tons of ore—the largest monthly return yetobtained, making the total output .from the mine £5,666*696, and-the total dividends £.2,577,896.

The.Hon. Mr Millar, inerviewed at Chriscthurch in regard to the price of bread, said that it was more a matter for settling -responsibilities with the Millers' Trust. Parliament might have something to say on the subject in view of the (increased cost of living.

The civil list for the Auckland Supreme Court includes claims against the Auckland Harbour Board totalling .£21,788, arising out of the accidenttto the steamer Mamari in the Calliope Dock. The Shaw-Savill Company claim £15,000. The balance is chiefly claims for injury sustained by.workmen. Mr James Nicholls, an employee at the Brick and Tile Works, Carterton, mat with a painful accident on Wednesday. He was banking up the fires in a i large kiln, when a gust of wind blew the flames into his face. His face.was badly.scorched, and his left arm burnt. Ee is progressing favourably.

Scarlet fever and .diptheria are very prevalent in Wellington just I now. Both diseases-are distributed ! over a wide area throughout the city. Their spread is largely attributable to carelessness on the > part of convalescents, and contacts- travelling-in the .trains, .etc., without taking ,necessary precautions. An Invercargill 'Press Association telegram states that at ,the ; annual conference of the Southland' Farmers' Union, yesterday, the .following resolution was carried—"That per .annum be paid to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Massoy);for.the time being, and that he rhave ithe privileges of a Minister in the matter of access to books and documents;"

At Invercargill, 'yesterday, the Magistrate, Mr McCarthy, delivered ireserved judgment iin ithe case of Margaret McAuJiffe, charged with ; sly grog selling at Uhe -Shamrock Hotel, Defendant had 'been ipreviously convicted of keeping liquor;for sale iin a no-license .area. The Magistrate found the charge;subatan•tiated, and sentenced the .accused cto ithreejnonths' imprisonmnent. (The relative value of male and female nurses came under discussion .at .the meeting of the. Duuedin Benevolent Trustees on Tuesday -afternoon, and the general opinion -was greatly in favour of the latter. Indeed, so lightly was the male attendant esteemed that the management had ilong since dispensed with the services of that sort, and found that an old inmate was capable of looking after the patients infinitely better than the paid, and presumably trained, professional. Dr. Ciloss, when appealed to, said that a male nurse was not nearly so deft or so reliablejas a female. Also, curiously enough, two female nurses could be procured for the salary paid to one male.

A -vigorous "No" came from Mr .A. W- Hogg, M.H.R., at a meeting ol the Wellington Education Board, on Thursday, when a vote was taken on a motion that a letter of thanks and appreciation should be sent to the Wellington College Board of Governors for its willingness to provide 25 free places for board scholars at the boys* college. "I don't see why we should knuckle down to the Governors*." declared Mr Hogg. "They have been driven into this." He claimed that the governors did not deserve thankß for an action which they had been compelled to take after a long delay. .Mr W. Ht Field held that Mr Hogg's statement of the case was not fair to the Governors. The motion was carried.—Post.

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