ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 153, 28 December 1899, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, 27th December. The jockey Lindsay, who was thrown from the Slave in a pony race yesterday, is more soverely injured than was at first anticipated. A boy named Samuel Clarke, living at Parnell, narrowly escaped poisoning by swallowing an eye lotion of atropine. He is slowly recovering. DUNEDIN, 27th December. Information has been received that late this: afternoon a man named Nicholas Swan was drowned near the Heads. He was going off to a yacht in a dingey with two others, when the boat swamped.

Old age pensions will be paid on Tuesday next, Monday beiug New Year's Day. Messrs. Levin & Co. have received word that the Aotea left Capetown for Wellington via Ilobart on the evening of the 19th inst. It is understood that the judgment; of the Supreme Court in the case in which Mr. David Wilkic, of Wanganui, sought to obtain a share of certain partnership monies from hia brothers, John and Adam Wilkie, in connection with the railway works in Western Australia, is in favour of the defendants. Tho railway between Jackson's and the Otirn, will be oponed for goods traffic on Wednesday next, but will not be finished sufficiently for passenger traffic until February. Messrs. Haigh nnd Morvah will hold a clearing sale to-morrow at Mr. Geo. Jones's farm, Pahautanui, of 1 dairy stock, lambs, store oattlo, pigs, &o. On Saturday, at their horso bazaar, Harris-street, they will sell a first-class lot of horses from Feilding. Mr. W. F. Shortt will hold a sale of highclass furnituro to-morrow at his matt, Willisstreet, at 2 o'clock. Parti ob on the look out for oleotro-plate or cutlery suitable for Christmas, prevents or presentations ore particularly requested to have a look through the largo and varied assortment of urst-cfa&3 novelties in plated Ware shown by Georgo Winder, ironmonger, Lower Cuba-street. They wijl find they can do much better than by going to self-styled wholesale or soft goods houses, whore you are chargod more than retail prices for inferior goods which are generally imported for hawkon and the thirdclass trade. All our plated ware is manufactured by well-known makers, nnd every articlo is guaranteed. Fonders, fire brasses, bedsteads, filters, lumps, boyß* bicycles, airguns, poclcot knives, and various lines suitable for Christmas presonts, all at reduced priccß during tho sale. — Advt.