ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 324, 27 January 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Press Association.) - Wellington. This day. The body found in the harbour yesterday has been identified as that of William Swan, aged 29 years; who came from England as third cook on the Tongariro. % Waimate, Jan. 26. '. Henry Sides, farmer, of ' Waijiao Downs, was found shot in a paddock about half a mile from his house yes-! terday morning. He went to bring in horses, taking a gun with him, and aa he did not return fo? r breajkfastj Mrs Sides sent her boy to, ioQk;.lpr;'iurq. The lad. found- his father lying dead, with the gun beside him. It js suppose^: that the< deceased; tripped and the gun, one barrel of which went ofi, the charge lodging in the deceased's chests. .. v ' " ■"_. '■"■ ■; ; " " v.'l' '. 'l"':''' -■' ? I)ttnedin, January 26P'" v -j> ; Private advice announces the deatV at Johannesburg of Charles JPeake,>ia' ; member of the. Eighth Contingent. .- - ; .U The stationmaster at Ellerslie yesterday had the toes of one of his feet badly crushed by the wheel of a train. He slipped in getting on to a guard's van.. ,

A Napier telegram states that Me Frederick Sutton, one" of Napier's very .earliest settlers, and formerly M.H.R. for the towD, died yesterday. "'• b A Press Association telegram from] Dunedin states that Miss Brown, daughter of Professor Brdwa .of Auckland^ who was run orer by an erpress in Prmcess-streefc on Thursday, has taken a turn for the better. She is still suffering from a severe shock, but no serious consequences are anticipated. /" Questioned at dhristchurch regarding the dairy produce trade. Mr H. F. Recce, who recently /returned from London, said there was a great deal of dissatisfaction with the' way our butter was being retailed at Home. The fact ot its being, so hard and dry and; good, rendered it easy off manipulation and adulteration, which there was rip doubt was largely done. There was a great deal ot truth in the reports concerning the manipulation., He had tried time after time to purchase New Zealand butter in the' large retail establishments and could not do it They sold theirs is, is 3d, or is 4d butter; as the case might be, but il New Zealand butter were asked for one would be told they did not keep it There various Acts dealing with the adulteration of butter and other food products, and though there had been some p'rosecntions it was difficult to prove adulteration. Neither could New Zealand cheese be bought in the leading retail shops, only English Cheddar /.and/ Canadian. It was a question, therefore, what New Zealand cheese was sold as.