ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

((BY TELEGBATB—rRESS ASSOCIATION.) INVERCARGILL, 7th March. ( 'A boy named Collins, aged thirteen, ,son of Mr. ,E. Collins, of Ata Creek, Vwas killed on^the railway yesterday near is3rydon6 whi^ trying to board a moving

„ For -the moment the strong personality Pt>i Mr. Roosevelt has retired into the back-ground of American politics and /•public life (writes Sir Henry Lucy in ?ine Sydney Morning Herald). There is, Pfhowever, a strong opinion in the United that his effacement is only ternsjmrary. Born in 1858, he is * still young /its statesmen's years are counted, and liib throughout the last Presidential ! Mection testified that he has lost nothing ■•■of his vigour, cither intellectual or phy--sical. The last mail brings tne an inJteresting letter from him, bearing on 'Hhis snbject, "As for my political fuhe writes, "I think the general '^English estimate is right. I hated to ,'^get into this fighti at all. but I did not <mcc how to avoid it ; and having gone in, '■■there was nothing to do but to put it It was very bitter for rue to sco 'the Eepuhlican Party, when I had put it jback on the Abraham Lincoln basis, in "three yeais turned over Lo a combination *of big financiers and unsmipulous poli- , ; tical bosses. What the future of the Party will be, nobody can tjsay ; but J am very confident that our ."^principles, in some shape or other, will /triumph. At present, however, Ido *ifot see how the party can triumph un-!'-<ier me; but I have to continue to take nak certain interest in it until a new man ''of sufficient power rotnes along." The ..general English estimate alluded loiu j vthe letter was set forth iti a quotation '/from the London letter of tho 20th No--in which it is slated : "In ihis it, is generally taken for granted r?,-tbat with his defeat Mr. Eoosevelt's ''•career is closed, and that little more will sjbe heard of him." Studying the letter S*the Teader will probably not be able to tone or purpose tending in that If the "new man of sufficient » ? power" to recapture predominance for H /the Republican Party does not "come | along" Mr. liooseveft, moved by pa-,-triotic impulse, will, doubtless, step £iuto the breach At about 1.30 o'clock this afternoon I /a fire occurred at the waterworks pumping station at the Lower Butt. Tho • outbreak apparently started through one of the generators becoming overheated. ''Che building is a concrete one, and 'Jthe only damage done was in' the .'wooden portion of the roof. The machin- • cry was not affected. There was no ; insurance on the building. The Fire under Lieutenant Al'llwide, '^attended promptly and extinguished the f/b&Ze. n