SERIES OF ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20510, 28 May 1938, Page 4

SERIES OF ACCIDENTS

LEVEL CROSSING SMASH OTOROHANGA FARMER'B DEATH By Telegraph.—Press Association) PALMERSTON N., Saturday The death has occurred of Mr Samuel James Sanson (70), married, an Otorohanga farmer, who was seriously injured in a level crossing smash in the city yesterday. CHILD DROWNED IN RIVER CHRISTCHURCH, Friday George Ivan Ray (3), of Riccarton, was drowned in the Avon this afternoon. He strayed from his home, about 40 yards from the river, crawled under a wire-netting fence, and when a search was instituted his body was found on a mudbank. LORRY OVER A BANK TAIHAPE, Friday Messrs Robert Hardy, of Ohutu, and S. Maher, of Utiku, were injured, the former seriously, when a lorry in Avhich they and two other employees of the Rangitikei County Council, went over a bank on the Taoroa Road, five miles from Utiku, while passing a school bus. INJURIES PROVE FATAL AUCKLAND, Saturday Mr -Charles Henry Thompson (57), who suffered a fractured skull on Thursday while working in a quarry at Nihotapu, died in the hospital last night. SEEKING A JOB AUSTRIAN COUNT IN LONDON EFFECT OF HITLER'S COUP (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, April 16 Count Francis Jeremle HabsburgLothringen, great-grandson of the Archduke Francis Charles of Austria, is in London, looking for a job, writes T. L. Laister in the Daily Herald. He has left the battle mented Tudor mansion in Norfolk where he has lived for two years, and Is occupying a room in Kensington. He told me yesterday that he had put up for sale his country house. East Barsham Manor, Walsingham, for “financial reasons" arising out of Hitler's seizure of Austria. “Call Me ‘Mr’” According to the Catholic “Who’s Who," Count Francis Jeremle, youngest son of the late Digby W. Willoughby, of Evelyn Cary, “assumed the name' of Habsburg-Lothringen at the request of the trustees of the ‘family trust’ created for his grandfather and his descendants by his late Imperial Majesty Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria." “Don't call me count,” he said to me, "I prefer to be known as plain Mr Hapsburg-Lothringen. "It is a tragedy to leave that wonderfui old mansion. It was bought for me by a relative and restored. Spent £4OOO "I spent something like £4OOO on restoration alone. You should see the Manor inside. It is magnificent. There are pictures there by some of the world’s greatest artists. "Yes, I have been to Austria. But I have spent more of my time in this country than anywhere else. I was born In India and since the age of nirie have stayed in Britain, apart from holiday visits abroad.” But Count Francis Jeremie would not discuss Hitler or the situation in Austria.