Accident at Mungapakeha.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3414, 20 January 1890, Page 2

Accident at Mungapakeha.

A tolephonie messngo was sent from _ Carswell's oflioo, Blairlogie Junotion. to Maetorton yesterday forenoon, to prepare two beds at the hospital for two men who had been seriously injured, At noon Charles and Donald Cameron, the men referred to, were brought down ind admitted to that institution, It

appears from what our reporter gathered, the men who have a road metalling contract in that districl under the Wairarapa North County Council, had completed their work and woro returning lata on Saturday on their-road home to Mastcrton. There were two drays, and in the. first' the two brothers were sitting, Donald on tlio forepart driving and Charlie inside tlio body ol the cart, There were two horses in the conveyance, and whilst the brothers wore chattering,the leader was suddenly startled, it i? supppsed by a rabbit springing out in frout of it; and plunged and swerved over the steep siding, tlio shaft-horse and dray following. Charlie shouted to liia brother to jump, but there was no time or he could not dear himself for he was caught and pinned down, tlio iron rail of the pressing on hie throat. Donald'shouted "get me olear of the horso,'' The second dray had come .up by this time, and the man in it got off and prepared to go down to the rescue. The liiclring and plunging of the horse in Cameron's cart caused tlio vehicle to roll over again, and both men were relieved. A new danger awaited them. Ohailio Cameron looking up, saw that the second dray was being backed over the siding, and ho had bafoly time to drag his brother out of the way when down it pame. The up in the second fortunately was clear, and he immediately desoended to the assistance of the Cameron's. It was very dark, and Donald Cameron lay there apparently dead, Carswell's hotel was tho noarost houso, and ope of the horses being secured, a message was sent for assistance, and a brake speedily returned. Both the Camorohs were hurt, but Charlie being inside the dray escaped with a severe bruising and shaking, They were helped into the dray and removed to the hotel, My Mason of tho Whakataki Hotel, happened to be stopping at Carswell's thai/night as he. was on his way to Mastei'ton. He speedily saddled his horse and rode into Mastefton to Dr. btosking.- The

doctor sent instructions to Mr Cars well to forward the > injured men down at once to the Hospital and further-instructed liim what remedies to give to enable the men to the journey. He also

kiita umu along on horse' nek with some restoratives.. The lattoc root the cortego at tho Taueru. Dr Hosking was promptly^Ulio-Hospi-tal when tho injured moii arrived and made a preliminary examination of them. He.found Charlie was uninjured beyond ft severe shaking and btuieing, but Donald Cameron waa iu a serious condition. His neck and throat were very- much swollen* and bruised, and his chest appeared to be injured.;. It was; reported late, in the evening, that Donald had .- succumbed to his injuries, _ but tab'. rumour proved false, Ca.iT eron was- quite jable to go to Iris f homi, and did so. Early this rndni. ing he started off to visit his brother, andwai met on the road with the

distressing news that bis brother had died- the preceding night. H e was. greatly relieved to find, on resolving the hospital, that his brother'was still alive, although ho was .unable to speak from'the effects of :\m, injuries. - ; '; - -.' ; ' J Our Taueru correspondent writes as follows :-A very serious accident happened on Saturday evening on the road tho other side of tho Blairlogie Junotion Hotel leading to tbi MungapakehaValley. AeMessraf, and D. Cameron were ooming up the

hill towardß Carswell's Hotel in a dray, the horse shied over the bank, the dray falling on both, injuring 0. Cameron digbtly, and 0. Cameron very seriously- about tho chest and neok. "0. Cameron passed through here this (Sundaj) morning towards Maslerton with his brother, who appeared to be in great pain.Mli' T. Carswell's break. , I ■'.■

Wellington Items (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Thftre's a how-do-you-do I That nvt union Uwt w:k orsanvu'il hero in aid of tbo Freo Public Li'TKry ia gotting a proper shaking-op, and I am Badly afraid that ai tho day of reckoning someone will ftro anything but well. Hiiwbvmi", it's never a policy of niino'io kick a-Mlow when he'B. down, ami nlthiiujjh one of out leading journal* appear to gl.iry in the c»nu?rn, I would content"mysolf ornl endeavor to content tho thousands who liavn purchased tickets in the Wnirurapa, with th" f-ict that ''all'a well that end* well." Time only will r*#e

hbiliev or not the affair is legitimate, A ydnng woman named Eitlie

laiidbrook, whoso chief charnctfrisiio i niOKt assuredly not to he found in

her 'virtue,' and whose htliittjii'ja cannot lie said to he with thoneof

the West, was to-day committed fur trial for oxtraoting from the pucketa of a country farmer the sum of ,£5. Poor Hettiol The farmer, who is about seveuty yeaia of aye, had cashed a chequo during tho day, snd assuming tho disposition of a Irolio Bomo youth, had decided on " drowning bitter care ■' and having b invrry. time generally, The damsel in question, who ovidently knew her iMilt, took him in hand, with the result above named. Farmers, beware I

Federation I Federation! Fvdt-ra-

tion! This appears to be all the rage at present. Tho reason of this slit can be easily discerned. Why, I>lesa you, it's fashionable I Tho shining lights of the colonics aro interested in tho matter, and therefore we must be concerned. Any direct advantage, however, that may bo derived from the scheme propounded by Sir Henry Parkcs will riot, I am afraid, he' felt

in this generation, I bear that since the question was introduced* in Dwnedin, the price of" gas" considerably reduced. '*'

The steamers of the Union s.s. Company are being well patronised by Wellingtoniana at this season, and every boat that leaves" Port Nio" is crowded with passengers on holiday excursions, the majority of whom are proceeding to Dunedin. It is mooted that an opposition line of bouts is shortly to be placed on the coast, and this will fill a long-felt want, for the fruits of monopoly are now being experienced by thi; public, Speaking of monopoly reminds me that the residents of this gay and festive city bore countenanced the disastrous principle to their own regret in the mntor of city tramways. When Ihoy were called to mipporb an opposition which reduced 'Farm to at least a reasonable, basis tiV publio preferred the monopolists, with the rtsolt that they uro now becoming victims to an open imposition, Fancy the tramway coy. issuing tieketsat l|d, is not this (t farce ? Does tiWaiii. pany expect that we nio goi*" to procure an issue of furlliings so as to prevent our being " had ?" No I they knew us too well for that, But tbo time will come I The only advice I can givo to the public is to try the effects of giving a shank's pony for a time, ; bir Hurry Atkinson has returned! With his improved health big thingi politically may be looked for. In the meantime we are l going to gi<o an alfrulinmite welcome,to the ait'oorata of iheadjbining colonies, Jubilee chaoii p;igno will doubtless be to the front. With pleasant anticipttions-Aditu I

A poser.; Ono of Sir John Herscliel's numerical problems was this:—lf, at the time of Cheops, or 3000 yearn ago, one pair of human beings bail lived, and war, pestilence and {amino bad not existed, and only natural death came to man, and this pair had doubled once in 30 years, and llieir children had doubled, and so o»')ow largo would the population or the world be at this timo—could. they stand upon the earth as a plane I We, were sitting at the breakfast tattle whenhe asked the question. We thought they could not, "But if they stood closely and others stood on their shoulders, man, woman and child, how many layers would there bu 1" I mi, " Perhaps three.'VvttHow many fort, of men r ho askeTN Possibly 30/' I said, "Oh, more I" say 100," "Oh more I"- Miss Her«cse} ,said "Enough to reaoh the moon.""To the aim." " More, more I" oried Sir John, exulting in our astonish* ment; 'i bid higher," "To Neptune," said ono. "New you burn;" ho replied,. " Take a hundred Units the distance of Neptune, and it its very near. That is.my way,"said he, "of whitewashing war, pestilence and famine." ■-':■'*•' A Joke on a Joker. :> A good story is, related if the expenso of an hotel proprietor at Tacoraca, Washington■ Teiritory.'■; A Btranger who had'been stopping";at the house for a few weeks usked the proprietor how far it was to Mount'. Eanier, which appeared to bB a couplo of miles distant, although, in fact, it was neaily a bundled,; 'Jhe propnetorlooked .itihe.b\>t»i'(li'i»,'in'd' said that perhaps it wusa mile away. The boarder : Raid' "be. beltoVe'd he would walk out to it for exeiwe, Tub landlord enrooragetj

"tendorfbui," who, bl'ut borrowing the |iro|iiiHtor'B fine field-glass, immediately sUrted. Tho jokevns too rich for the hotel to keep and ho treated all hands, But tho pedestrian did not return. .Tho landlord at lust became suspicious, and found thai ilin valise which tho" tenderfoot" had left wuii tilled with brickbats, and that he Imcl carried off snventcen towels and everything else that he could got into Ilia pockets; besides this, ho owod a two'ffei'ka' board-bill. Ho is probably still walking.

tfiftilee day (29th instant) is to be observed in Gishorne as a close holiday, and will bit commemorated by holding tho Church of England garden fetu on that date. One of tho most extraordinary racca over recorded was that which recently took plaeo between tho Teutonic, of the Whito Star Lino, and tho liimim liner City of New York. A passenger on board tho Teutonic sends to tho Star an intoreating account of tho affair. It seems that the vessels started within 20 minutes of oaoh other at

■|- Liverpool, tho Teutonic being delayed «!> that timo by her mails, By sunset the 'W City of New York was. out of sight, In the night, Tiowever, the Teutonic gained, and next day could just per- . ceire her rival's funnels on the horizon. Using every available ounce of power, sho continued to creep closer and closer, amid tremendous excitement on board both vessels, until on

tho fourth day the Iwo boats were / absolutely neck and neck, and so •&K, c ' os ' ) together that the proverbial ) biscuit could have been flung with' the greatest ease from one to tho ot her. The slightest hitch to either would, of course, have set*led tho matter at once, but nothing of the kind occurred, and the wagers made were soinethiii" appalling. Finally, tho City of Now York drew slightly ahead, and got in just five minutes in advance of her pursuer, being, however, ti quarter of an hour to tho ml r\\ time. Probably no raco of ilif-kiml so close or so exciting has mit taken place before, the romnrkalile feature being, of courso tho way in which tho' two boats clang to one another throughout the 3,000 miles or so of tho raco. Tho "greatest cruiser afloat," according to American descriptive fervour, is tho new United States warship the Baltimore. Tho New York Sun, in a two-column small-type eulogy of the .'■hip, thus indicates its views and patriotism in a spray of black-letter headlines :—" Uncle Sam is on Top Again. A niirvcl of ;± Speed, flaniliness, sml Fighting w Power. Tli'h Commerce of tho World at her iWy in War-timo. Let (he Stars and Stripes Wive and the Eiglo S Team," A drawing shows the to he a lons, some'vlmt low, double.funnel, skeleton masted ship, of rakish lines, alter tho apparently ineradicable American privateer pattern -a pattern which enters into everything that floatain tin West, from a Hudson Hiver ice barge to a battleship of tho Union Ourperfervid contemporary observes that a few yean ago there was no'.a ship organ in tho American navy at that time worth, as war engines, the powder lo blow them out of the water. The old fraud-ballasted Tennessee, sojslow and unwieldly that she actually had to wait till the tide turned to assist her round, was tho host ship that the American navy afforded, Tho old fraud-ballasted "Tennessee is good; not so tbo Baltimore, Here is a ship that can go anywhere, and do any-

thing, in proof whereof the Sun tie'scribes bow on Saturday morning (long may tho tiny be remembered), she ran outside' with propellers awhirling it moro than contract power. Tho fastest of the Atlantic mail boats is warned to keep clear of tho Baltimore, with her twenty-knot pjwcr Uncle Sam is on top again, and John Bull's lumbering cruisers can be danced round and round again by tho Baltimore, which (it is beautifully added) has been constructed to carry tho Stars . and Stripes about tho world in timo of peace, and knock the stuffing out of the eneiiiy,s comtnerco in timo of war.—Court

Journal. The Pioneer, in an article giving an account of a voyage to India a century ago, Bays: "A woll authenticated story is told of a lovely girl whose charms hail "waived hot youth to deeds of Mood." and who, learning that three of litr devoted admirers had decided on n combat a outrunce when the vessel should reath the Cape, sent for them to' he cabin and then nil. dressed them:'' U it really true that you have fallen nut. on my account, and aro going to h>t v/keu we arrivo at Capo Town?' The culprits hung their heads in tell-tale silence, and she went on, "You silly boys, why should you.eudangoryour livea and break your mother's hearts over such a trifle] Come, now, shake bauds and make friend, and I'll marry all three of you. Which pledgo die deadlincss of tho Calcutta climato a hundred years ago enabled her to fulfil la the letter." ~

According to the' Age' a project iV on foot, and is reported to have ro. ceived support, for the formation in Melbourne of a cremaiion society. Tho idea is lining canvassed amongst the sußiitisw, and is being generally reoeivpil with favour. It is considered by those who havo tho mattor in hand that, owing to the great improvements which have duriug recent years been mndo iu the construction of incinerators, together with the improved methods of cremation and the extension of sanitnry knowledge there will be little difficulty in forming a strong society.

The Vigil ot Mr Gladstone.. The following anocdote was told at a dinner party by the great man himself :~ Mr Gladstone said that through all his life h« had been an excellent sleeper, and it was only on one occasion that he had lost' a night's rest, All drajvup tlwir chairs more closely to hear tne extraodinary matter that caused the ex-Premier to lie sleepless. They expected it might bo some atory of the greatest importance, " I had been trying," he said, " to out dowu an oak at Hngloy, and was getting on with it very well, Then I heard the dinner bell ring, and I was obliged to leave tho work unfinished, although not much remained to bo done. As I took my candle and wont upstairs tho wind had risen high and was making a great noise: I went to bed and then the thought suddenly occurred to me that the wind would topple down my oak, Tho thought occurred to me again and again, and I really lost a good deal of n night's rest through that oak."