NAPIER, Thursday.

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NAPIER, Thursday.

A. serious buggy accident occurred yesterday evening on the Shakspere Road. The two Misses Williams, daughters oi Mr Henry Williams, ironmonger, and Miss Speedy, of Wainni, were thrown on to the stone kerb of the footpath. ' The two Miss Williams escaped with sever* cuts and bruises, but Miss Speedy, it is feared, received concussion of the brain. She has remained unconscious since, < and bleeds at the ears.

WELLINGTON, Thursday. Mr F. Back has resigned his position of general manager of Christchurch railways, he having accepted the general managership of the Tastnauian Government, railways. Captain <T. N. Rees is transferred .from the unattached to the active list of the New Zealand Militia. , The Governor, accompanied by, bis Private Secretary, left for Lyttelton in the Hinemoa at five o'clock thi» evening. Admiral Tryon will leave for Lyttelton m che Uiuemoa on Saturday. next, and will inspect the fortifications.

JUUNEDIN, Thursday. The London Dock Company has re* duced the charge for frozen meat t0,22 of a penny por lb over all, including six weeks' storage. v Iv the Supreme Court the Judge ordered Sheriff Watts to $le an Jafjidavit to show cause why he should nbt*be fined or committed for default in issuing jury panels. „ r. In the Divorce Court a decree absolute with costs was issued against the corespondent in Watson v. WaUon and Gillespie. , Professor Shand has resigned his seat at the Education Board.

A coloured bnby show ia in operation in Ciuoiunit — i sort of black-ball entertaimnent, as u were. A case of death in a dentist*! room caused by the use of laughing gas hu for.ned the subject of legal proceeding* in Paris. A merchant named Lejftune, 54 years of age, went in November; 1884, to the defendant Duchesne, asking him to extract a tooth. At the" patient's request he was placed under the'influence of laughing gas, and ,the operation was performed. 4s. he did"jnot revive Duchesne, alarmed, cent for a doctor, who found the patient dead. A medical man, io giving evidence, said -he, was of opiuion that anaesthetics should be used with the greatest caution by an experU enced practitioner. A doctor only wm competent to say whether the heart was likely to bear chloroform, ether, or laughing gas. Kent House advertisement in our business columns. Special attention it directed to Messrs Dey and French's advertisement in another column, which housekeepers would do wetl to teas. Good For. Ba'd«s.—" We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cored of * tcrioui protracted irregularity of tt» bowels by tbo use of American CVs Hop Bitten by its mother wbnb at tbe same time restored her to perfect hMltk and JttwfttV'-TM PAwmn. sst.