THE LITTLE RIVER ACCIDENT.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 9988, 18 March 1898, Page 5

THE LITTLE RIVER ACCIDENT.

We learn from Dr. Morris, at Little River, that there U a further improvement In Mr Turner's condition.

CYCLING,

The Wfuiginui Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, at a meeting last night, decided to apply fur affiliation with the New Zealand League of Wheelmen.

THE .SIUN-GRAFTING CASE,

Bcores of letters are appearing in the Auckland papers with reference to the akingrafting case, and with few exceptions, the correspondents unite in condemning the treatment accorded to Mise Baker.

DRAINAGE WORKS AT ROTORUA.

Messrs Saunders and Co. are proceeding vigorously with the contract for the drainage and sewage works at Rotorua, and nearly one-half of the atreete are now reticulated (saya a correspondent of the Hatoke , * Bay Herald). The residents of the old town (Ohinemutu) are now asking why they should be left out of the soherae, and lie agitating for an extension of the system.

USE OF THE RONTGEN RAYS,

On Saturday last a baby about eight months, child of Mr E. Capile, of Ohoka, was accidentally shot in the arm with a small rifle bullet while at the Otarama gionio, the projectile glancing from a tree ito the fleshy part of the child's arm. Yesterday, by the aid of the X Rays, the location of the bullet was defined, and the mispije was extraoted by Dr. W. H. Ovenden.

IN DUNEDIN AT JUBILEE TIME

Some idea of the great influx of visitors into Dunedin during Jubilee week (remarks the Otago Daily Times) may be formed from the fact that the committee of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church has the greatest difficulty in providing accommodation for ministers and elders. A great many who usually extend hospitality to the Synod expect to be crowded with country visitors. One hospitable citizen says he will have several persona eloeping in his drawingroom.

"OFF TO KLONDIKE."

Tlio steamer Cape Otway, which arrived, at Auoklatxl a few, days ago from Sydney end is now on her way to Juneaa (the neaveet port to Klondike) via Suva and Vanconvey, has on, board 203 passengers, the majority of whom are bound for the Klondike mining fields. Eighty of the men come from Western Australia, where some have been mining for years with considerable success; and the balance Irom Victoria,, Now South Wales, and Queensland, with forty-three from New Zealand, the majority of the Maorilanders coming from tho Southern districts. Most of the miners (says the New Zealand Herald) are possessed of moans, some, it is said, having as much as £6000 lying to their credit in Australian banks, and others with a few hundred pounds. They look a steady and hardy lot of men, and so far as health and Shysical strength are concerned, appear to c well fitted to withstand the trying climate of the district to which they are bound. Though there are several parties on board, the majority of the men intend to work singly or in pairs, and thus secure larger areas of property, though possibly their earnings will go into a common fund and be divided among the members of the respective parties.