A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 99, 27 April 1903, Page 5

A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

NELSON, this clay.

A curious accident took place here yesterday. A boy* named Harris, eight years of age, was playing whip-top with a man,- when a .stick held by the latter accidentally struck the boy in the eye, destroying the sight. Harris was taken to the hospital, where the injured eye was removed. It is not likely he will lose the sight of the other eye.

WIILLINGTON, this day

Nine stowaways from Sydney were paraded in the Magistrate's Court this morning, and were fined £ 1 each,-oi , in default seven days.

The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened this morning before the Chief Justice. In his charge to the grand jury His Honor remarked on the large numb'eY of ■ .burglary, and robbery and assault cases reported in the daily press, but he did not think this should be taken to reflect on the police.,

A married woman named Webber has been missing since Friday night. She had threatened self-destruction owing to domestic infelicity.

WANGANUI, this day.

The New Zealand Alliance intend contesting the action of the Wanganui Licensing Committee in granting a wholesale''license to Turntmll and Co., who were previously refused a license by the old committee. Natives axe also going to the Appeal Court to contest the committee's action in granting packet licenses through a prohibited area inland of Wanganui.