NEWS FROM NEAR AND FAR

Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 1

NEWS FROM NEAR AND FAR

An unnsual incident is reported in 4aa- -s/J nection with a minor accident on the 's Auckland wharf yesterday. William Woit. V' while loading cargo for the steamer gmiali. ic had ms leg broken, and it is'alleged that on application being made to the doctor of a ship lying at the wharf to attend tO the man and set the limb, a refusal was received. There is a serious omission V * from the report—the name of this j'rf medico ought to have been supplied. Mr 0. J. Thom presided at the morihiv ' meetnm of the Caverehim School prwwrtrf- I - tee. The baianoe-sheet of the recent enter* Installment was presented , and showed that I the funds of the school benefited to the tent of £22. It was.resolved to congiatn- , late the head master and staff upon thee-: success of the entertainment, and to thank them for the trouble they lad taken ini ' training the scholars. The head master's '' report showed that there were 604scbo)art: on tjic roll at the end of the mouth. The penny savings bank showed a balance to credit of depositors of £156 12s 2d. 'lt was resolved to cauvate the district as usual on behalf of the prize fund. It was de- ' cided to renew an application to the Otaec ’ Education Board to havo the furniture, remodelled in some of the class rooms, where the desks were more than forty years old. 1 and somewhat antiquated in design. /Hie ‘ visitors for the month (Mossns Thom and Komurd) presented a list ■' of repairs re* 9? lr ™» me of whicil were relegated to th© " orks Committee, the rest to be referred " to tire Education Board. The thanks ©ft the Committee were accorded to Mr ; Kennard for putting silver plates upon the Victory shield, on which it is intended to inscribe the names of the successful winnem ?>> ' lctoi 7 competitions. Mr S. C. • 1 lumps forwarded an English newspaper containing references to the proposed interchange of flaps -between Caversham, New Zealand, and Caversham, England. ‘ A lover’s romance at Paris has just ended m a double tragedy A year ago M. Emile Maas visited New York, wliero he made tire acquaintance of Miss Winifred Parsons They became betrothed, and it was decided tint after marriage they would reside m Paris. In the spring Mr Maas, Lis flcncec, and the latter's aunt went over to France, where in duo course arrangements for tho nnptials were completed. One mtrning in July M. Maas visited his betrothed at her residence in the Avenue a Ilena, and l took an affectionate farewell, telling her that he was going for a motor tour tlireugli the lountry districts. Three days afterwards lus dead body was found beneath his car on a lonely country road. The funeral took place in Paris, but Miss Parsons was so prostrated by grief, that she could no- attend, and was confined to her room for several weeks. Then her friends, thinking that she was recovering her normal spirits, left Iter alone one Sunday in September, and tire aunt went to church. On returning to the house in the Avenue d’llena she found Miss Parsons dead, with a . freshly-discharged revolver clasped in her,' hand. . After hearing further evidence in,''tho action in which Mary Margaret Shearer (four and a-half years, by her next friend and father, William Shearer) proceeded against Samuel M’Crackcn for the recovery of £45, damages for injuries alleged to have . been incurred by one of defendant’s coal carts running over her, MA T. Hutchison, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court late yesterday afternoon reserved his decision. ■ For the vacancy on the Otago Land Board the following nominations have been received:—Mr Thomas Barr (of Owakia), Mr Alexander Fraser (of Forsyth, Lawrence), Mr George Livingstone (of Windsor); Air Robert Logan (of Kokonga), and Mr Arthur Edwin Wilde (of Waitahuna Gully). ■ Tho election takes place on December 4.