Sad Drowning Accident

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1157, 29 November 1904, Page 3

Sad Drowning Accident

Death of Two Young Men

By Telegraph,—Press Association, CnßiSTcnoncii, this day. Ahtiiur Kimber, 'aged 21, and Sydnoy towo, ago HO, wore drownod in the Lower Solwyn Rivor last night while trout fishing through an old punt in which thoy woro orossing tho river sinking. Lo'wo Hank immediately, but Kimber was hiard calling lor help for a fow moments, but before it could roaoh him ho had sunk.

A membor of tho Bootmakers' Association seriously suggosicd at the annual meeting at (Jhristcliiirch that a surplus, wliioh approached £SOQ, should bo- givon to tho Anti-Gamblers' Leagus to assist it in its effort to abolish the totalisator: but another member opposed this proposal with tho remark that the ami-gamblers wished to abolish the "machine" first and bookmakers afterwards.

What appears to havo been a very gross case of cruelty, to an animal has been reported, from the Prebbleton district (Canterbury). An old cow collapse.! on tho public road, and lay thero about a day unable to get up. Its ownor then brought a horso and dragged tho unfortunate animal nlong the road for about two hundred yards trin paddock, whoro ho left it without why further attention. It was quite uiinbj/to reach food or water, ami hy the/for ncirly thirty hours before it was/merciluliy shot by a neighbour, Thojrolico, assisted by iho ihoEfevoniior. of Cruohy to loprosecuta in tho case, v

From particulars to hand concerning ilio fiunliiy Willi) first day's races of tho Tiiknpuna Jockey Club's Spring Meeting, on S-iturdny, ii wins that tho jockey, Alfred Jlmlcr, was riding Loch Lomond in the handicap hurdlo raco, mid had entered the straight on the first round, whon the horse struck tho top rail of the hurdlo with great force, which resulted in Butler being thrown dean over the horso's head on. to the ground, the horse afiorwa ds galloping over his prostrate form, Fo received a blow on the back of the head, it was thought by ouo of tho hoofs of the horse as it galloped over him, The young man's skull was badly fractured, and he expired within a fe>v minutes of the occurrence, having novor rogaiued consciousness, The deceased hud boon in Mr Duder's employ as trainer for the past six years, and was thought much of by his omployer. A test is being nnde, under ilio supervision of the Borough Engineer (says tho Masterton Times), of a sample of ilio concrete drainage pipis now being mado in Masiertou. Thrco pipes have been joiuted, making a longth of nine feot; these liavo been placed in an upright position arid filled with water, after plugging the bottom. The joints havo boon made by putting in a pad of greased hemp under the ceinont, The test will extend over a fortnight, and if satisfactory it will pro* bably rpsult in a saving to the Borough of about 1200 on one contract alono. Tho contract referred to is now in abeyance owing to tho largo quautitios of subsoil walor making clay pipes unsuitable If tho cement pipes do not stand tho tost it will moan that rivetad iron soworage pipes will have to bo substituted.