ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 8316, 13 March 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

■ «» Per Press Association. . TIMARU, March 13.

At. the inquest, on Charles Thomas Clements, whose body was found on the rocks yesterday morning, an open verdict was! returned. The evidence showed that he had been quite unnecessarily worried over business matters.

TE KUITI, March 11. Further .particulars of the fatal accident to George Davidson show that ho was riding home, accompanied by a teamster driving a three-horse dray. About two miles from Mokau the team bolted, and Davidson galloped ahead with, a view to stopping the horses. After getting ahead,- he'was in th<? neb of alighting close to a telegraph pole, when the dray struck him and crushed him to death against the pole. Davidson was 1 sixty years of age. A shocking accident occurred last night at Ohakuue. A girl named Vera Diller, a passenger to Auckland by the express, iii alighting missed her footing. The train .gave, a jerk, and she was thrown under the wheels and cut to pieces, being instantaneously killed. The two front wheels of the car were thrown off the linn.

DUNEDIN, March 12

« .Tosonh Willi-imp. .soveiitren years of age , residing at South Diinerliii, was drowned at St. Glair this morning while bathing. His companion states that Williams was standing in deep water, almost to his neck, when he threw up liis arms and disappeared. The body has not been recovered.

The P. and 0. steamer. Moldavia has left Sydney for Auckland.

According to an Ashburton resident who recently paid a visit to Otago, the people in; some towns are buying water for household purposes. This is' due to the prolonged. spell of dry weather.

Two threshing machines recommenced work to-day, after having been idle for several weeks. The grain in the stacks is now said to be in prime condition.

It is understood that the' appointment of a Town Clerk and Engineer for Ashburton will be made by the Borough Council at a special meeting on Thursday.

The State Weather Bureau's report for to-day is as follows: Northerly -moderate to strong freshening winds; expect unsettled and cloudy weather, increasing and rain probably following; the glass will fall slowly.

The members of the "Droppers' Union "-—the law-breakers whose mission is to " drop " liquor about Masterton at pre-arranged places— are face to face with trouble (says the Wairarapa Daily Times). It is stated that a " Lifters 1 Union " has been formed in Masterton, whose object it is to discover where the "droppers" have deposited liquor and then lift it without first receiving permission from thp " droppers.' 1 Recently, it is staged, the "lifters" lifted forty-two bottles of beer.

-A letter received in Wellington on Wednesday contains the following reference to Sydney: "Sydney is booming with a bang—l never have seen such a. difference. Labour, is unobtain-j able and everywhere is congested—the town is like a huge mining camp. Flare-up lamps, open-air auctions, shooting galleries, continuous picture shows by the dozen. There is apparently money to burn. The country is great—-you 'can't open the gate for the grass—in fact, the goose hangs high and everybody is looking avoirdupoisy in the pocket."