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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 January 1914, Page 4

•When driving -one of the Electric Tramway Go.'c imotor-caro from the Exhibition to Parnell on Thursday evening, a chanffenr named John Allday met with an accW'ravt ac the reerilt of the car skidding and' striking one of tihe trees at the side o£ the Domain Drive. Allday was tihn&wji out cf the car by the colliekm and knocked unconscious. He wae attended to try a. vieitrng doctor, who rwafi in a motor-caT tihat -was passing at -Shettime of the- accident. It-was found that AJlday had a rib broken, and had suffered several albraekms, but was not seriously injured, and he Wβ* 6ent on to his home. A recent visitor to England states that the ordinary High Schools do not touch upon agricultural training at all, there being special agricultural colleges for that purpose. When a lad reaches 14 years of age, he is educated in botany, chemistry, and other sciences -which would prepare him for his training at the agricultural school, which he enters at the age of 18 years. ■ . Away back in the early days, Stewart Island was looked upon by speculators as a particularly good investment, and private enterprise wae active with a view of securing possession. It appears that there was some uncertainty at the time as to whom it belonged, for in 1862 three Invercargill residents entered into negotiations with a white man from the North Island for its purchase, and afterwards found that he had no authority to act on behalf of the natives. They paid in all £1550, one contributing £750, two others £ 450, and a fourth £350. On receiving the money the settler left for Australia, and his clients took no action- against him, but after a lapse of some time the man returned to the Waikato, and it is said that there, the Natives hearing of the part he had played, summarily dealt with him. He was riding through the bush when he -was shot, and thus ended his career. A boy ten years of age, residing at Methven, Canterbury, wae admitted to the lAshburton County Hospital suffering from a badly lacerated left -hand. The boy was cleaning out a -dynamite cartridge for the purpose of making a pencil case when it exploded. The index finger had to be amputated, and it was uncertain -whether the thumb can be saved. The thunderstorm, which, wae accompanied by hail, at Methven, fifty miles from Christchurch, last -week was the most severe known in. the district, the stones measuring an inch and a-half in length. Gardens and fruit trees suffered considerably, while a farmer who has a crop of barley states that the cereal win barely pay for the reaping. Pine and macrocarpa trees also suffered. The storm lasted only a few minutes. A Ibraef .visit of inspection wae made on Saturday to the Waihi railway station by Mr. Hiley, accompanied by Messrs. Buxton, Bowtoe, McJntoeh. and JMicCreadie, of the Department. The party arrived hy a. special train, and only remained 15 minutee. There is quite an epidemic of harbour improvement eehemee on the West Coast south of New Plymouth. Wangaxmd and Pkutea are going in for big proposals, and Opunake is apparently not going to be left lamenting on the score that .trade is going to other porta. A loan of £48,000 is proposed, and at a public meeting heta at Opunake the chairman and members of the Harbour Board showed that by carrying out the Kg scheme proposed, and ±irae providing facilities for shipping through the port of Opunake, a saving of £2,052 on exporte would be made to the district by the dairy factories, while the estimated caving on imports would be £2,575. The action of the Harbour Board in going in for the loan was approved. r A .box of Baxter's KHe (Compound of Quinine) wfll" tone ep your digestive •organs wonderfully and: put you in- better eptrite. fl/e a box.—-{Ad.) Mt. Albert B*tee.~*lo per cent penalty wffl be added to ail raftos unpaid" after de*es ehwwv -a* foot of demand notct—