ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTORING ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph:—Press Association.) ' ■ Thames, November 16. When Mr. F. E. Smith, architect, of Hamilton, was motoring' to Coromandel on Saturday afternoon in company with Mr. P. ."White; chief postmaster here, two ladies, and a boy, a mishap occurred on the Coast Road. Something went wrong and the party, with the exception of tho boy, alighted. While Mr. Smith was fixing the machine it commenced, to ran .backwards. Mr. Smith made a gallant attempt to save the , boy, and succeeded, but was knocked down by the car, receiving painful flesh wounds and.a severe crushing of the lower part of his limbs, but no bones were broken. The. car somersaulted and dashed on to _ the rocks and was smashed. Mr. Smith was taken to the hospital He was on tour on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund, organising working committees.

' 'A member of the Belgian Christmas Gift Fund Committee has received the following letter from Mr. George Stephenson:—Dear sir,—l only arrived from Sydney to-day (November 10) with my pantomime company, and on looking through your papers I see you.are on the committee of the new fund being organised for taking up a shilling collection throughout New Zealand as a Christmas gift to the homeless Belgian children. This splendid : movement appoals not only to myself but also to tho members of my company, that wo wish to devote tho entire' receipts of a matinee performance of . "Humpty Dumpty" to be given as a send-off .to the "One Shilling New Zealand Christmas Gift to the Belgians." Their

heroism and honour nvust appeal to all true men, and I sincerely hope that this fund may realise the £25,000 estini.ated by its organisers. ■ ■ ;

A very pleasing and noble evidence of self-denial was mentioned by the chairman of the Parnell (Auckland) Belgian .Relief Fund Committee last week. Hβ 'stated that a little boy, Master Rongo Pulling, of Brighton' Road, had sold his favourite pony, and had donated the sum of £15 to tho Fund, being the procoeds of the salq. The result was received, as li might well have been, with much applause. The. chairman remarked that he trusted that Master

Pulliiiß's practical . self-denying gift would bo emulated by others in the same direction.

• A gocd sh«ep statiou of 2517 acres 19 announced for snlo on easy terms by Sir P. Tulloch, Pahiatua.

Messrs. .Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., hold a .stock sale at Lovin on Friday next.

The Barbers' • Guild of Moscow has offered to shave wounded soldiers and cut their hair free of charge, and at Viliia 1000 cab-drivers have tendered their services for tho gratuitous traus)»4 Qs .teosft. disabled; ja ac.tion v

The experiments made last year in the Taihapo district of inoculating Californian thistle with rust has in this district proved • successful, ' says the Auckland. "Star." Mr. W: Seth Smith has located some specimens in inoculated patches which aro affected by rust. The officers pf the Agricultural Department opine that rust-infected specimens do,not produce seed. If this be so, and if the rust spreads .itself, Nature will dispose of a matter which was puzzling the Department and farmers generally. Mr. Seth Smith is taking steps to show fanners infected specimens and give information necessary as to the method of inoculation.

The announcement made some few: weeks ago by Miss Gilmour, a well-; known Gisborne ladies' outfitter, that; she would devote the whole of tlio profits of her business for one year to, the relief of (Belgian distress, has met with such a gratifying response in the form of public support that Miss Gilmbur will be able ,to hand to the chairman of the Citizens', Defence Committee for immediate transmission to England the' sum of £100, this being a first instalment of the profits that will accrue -to the fund, says the "Poverty Bay Her- ; aid." Miss Gilmour informs us that' her staff have co-operated heartily witlv her in the movement, and that everything is being done to run the business as economically as possible in order to inoreaso the amount that will ; be avail-: able. Miss Gilmour's deavour is worthy of the * heartiest" sup-' port and co-operation. ;: :. ''■"•']

There is pno man in the world who! has been working away quiot-ly, in '\ the; bush almost within a day's, ride of.Gis--borne, and knowing nothing of tho war (states the,Gisborne "Times"). Abouttho end of Juno last two ..mates, made'

thoir way into the- heart'of the backcountry on a prospecting. expedition,; and they have hardly heard sign orsound of man sinco. However,' ■tho' other'day one of them arrived nt an; outlying Poverty Bay township, in quest ■of. stores, leaving his niato'inJcamp.. The man from the back-blocKe'wa's, eqou: told of the war, but .woulqhVt"believe! the news tintil the Gisbo£He£"Hnves'' had- confirmed it. His mhtej7jtiin' ignorant of anything everything went well, leah\?tb:e'\.n6}Vs about a week later. ' '\"; I '-'■}..''-'■.

Anglers in the Rotoma acclimatisation district have had several.,, goood catches. A party of fomy : fishing,on. Lako Tarawora, caught 64*-. ! finc-.fisli, ; ■ranging from 41b. upwards j> while-. T a: ■pnrty of two landed .30 figo, -none..of; •them being less than 41b* j in -weight. Fishermen on Lake Rotorvmr.haye ,also been very successful, andrsererol good bnskets lmvo becai spewed.'-. : Fiftoon large-trout wero caught by>.» party,of, three fishing on Lako Hotqiti., ,Nettiiig. is being carried on by the; men under Mr. F. Moorhousc, conservator-of-in-land fisheries. On tho _ppwing sdayj l.kwt. of lifih wore netted rua, while, in Lake Taupo oowt. was secured. Tho fish netted in Lako Taurw wetQ forwarded, iWjllinEt<»ls