SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 5

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) J FATALITY AT DUNEDIN. j DUNEDIN, Friday. * James McConnell, a shoemaker, aged j 73, was knocked down at the Lower j Rattray-street crossing by trucks shunting this afternoon, The wheels of a -\ truck passed over one of his feet. He „ , died two hours later in the hospital , , from internal injuries. i I _

PREMATURE EXPLOSION. 1 /* ■ i

I WESTPORT, this day, t ; Two men named Coldwell and Silcoek < > were injured in the face of the Harbour f Board's Cape Foulwind quarry by the ; premature explosion of a shot. Silcock's " jaw was broken.

\ COMPANY AUDITS. *

DUNEDIN, this day. < At the annual meeting of shareholders J in the Cromwell and Bunnockburn Col- j Heries Company the following resolution I was adopted, on the motion of Mr. Horn, I chairman of the Vincent Countyj Council: "That this meeting strongly protests \ against any amendment of the Companies Act which will restrict the auditing of i companies' accounts to public accounts only, as this will be a 'serious burden to j all small coal, quartz, and dredging com- f panics, whose officers may be outside a ~. large centre of population, and will also tend to create a close corporation for the express benefit of a few public account-, ants." A copy of the resolutions is to be • forwarded to the Premier and members of the Government. {