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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 207, 7 September 1901, Page 1

An extraordinary fatal accident occurred outside the Rockingham public-house, by the New Ivent-road, London, during a heavy downpour of rain. Charles Broadbent, a costermonger, was rushing round from one corner to escape the rain when a man of the labouring class came round 1 from the other way. In consequence of the speed at which they were both running there was a very serious collision, with the result that the unknown man was flung to the ground and rendered unconscious. He was picked up and taken to Guy’s Hospital, but died shortly after admission. The Hon. James D. Richardson, member of Congress from Tennessee, has the honour of holding the highest office in the gift of Masonry in the world. By the death of Thomas H. Caswell, of San Francisco, he became sovereign grand commander of the Southern jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He fills this position for life, and is practically a monarch in Masonry. In the Holy House of the Temple,” in Washington. are his apartments, which contain a throne elevated upon a dais. Mr Richardson occupies his elevated position in the fraternity by reason of the fact that the Scottish Rite, of which he is at the head, confers the highest Masonic degrees, while he presides over the supreme council of that order, which is the highest in the world. King Edward presented medals to three thousand Yeomanry at the Horse Guards parade here. The ceremony was the same as observed at the former presentation ot medals, but the inclement weather robbed the function of its brilliancy. Queen Alexandra and l’rince Edward, son of the Duke of Cornwall and York, were present. Considerable comment has been aroused by the refusal of thirty-two uon-commLsioned officers and men to attend the ceremony on the ground that their pay was in arrears. These men have addressed letters to King Edward, pointing out that they cannot submit to being decorated while their wives and families and some of their number are starving. The claims of the men who say they have not yet been paid vary from £6S to £127. Some of the claimants allege that they have had to pawn their earlier medals in order to procure food for the if families. John Bunyan in his prison cell, On Pilgrim’s Progless loved to dwell, And nearly all that startling tale He wrote while pining in a gaol. His work lives on though John succumbed, Kg doubt the damp bis limbs bad numbed, And gave him cold; his death that’s sure, Ilt’d uctgut Woods’ Gf.isai fir WiH.W Core.