AT THE HOSPITAL

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 75, 3 April 1901, Page 3

AT THE HOSPITAL

Tho rrinccss of Wales, now Queen Alexandra, was greatly affected and looked terribly worn, when she visited the convalescent home with the Kaiser. She paused near my cot, where I lay badly wounded, and asked me about my wound. As I told her her feelings, completely overpowered her and I felt worse than after the fight. The LtuUe of Connaught, who. with tlie Kaiser, was standing by, asked Private Lucas what he thought the most deadly weapon. Lucas answered: “ The pom-pom, on account of its deadly precision at long range.” The Duke turned to the Kaiser and said: “ And we condemned the pom-pom ” (meaning the British War Office). The Kaiser shrugged his shoulders. Lucas added : “ Your Majesties should stand before the pom-pom to understand its value.”

Tho Kaiser smiled and said : ‘‘ Yes that would be a good way to learn all about it.” Then the royal party left, the Kaiser turning round in the doorway and say' ig: ‘■l wish you a good recovery and God speed, my men.”'

[?J. Anderson and- Sons who are constructing Gisborne’s dredge, were charged with failing to report an accident which had happened at their foundry in Lyttelton. Mr Andrew Anderson explained that the' accident had been of so trifling a nature that he did not think it necessary to report it. An emery wheel, which had just been started by Edward Simpson, and had acquired no great velocity, burst, and cut the cut the man’s face and hand. The man walked away, and the bystanders thought he was not so much injured as to make it probable that' he would be prevented from working for more than forty-eight hours. The accident happened on Wednesday, and Simpson returned to work on the following Monday, and was still employed at the foundry. After hearing Mrs Hawthorn’s evidence the Bench said there had been a technical breach of the Act, but the action was a most trifling one. He would inflict the nominal fine of Is, without costs,