Serious Coach Accident

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3751, 21 January 1898, Page 2

Serious Coach Accident

IPKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 19. A serious accident happened to Knox's mail coach from Kawakawa to Kokianga. Joseph Kirkpatrick, gum buyer, sustained bad injuries. January 20. Further particulars of the coach accident show that Miss Johnston, Miss Lloyd, Mr Alum, Dr. Lowe, and Mr Clendon, S.M. at Russell, were passengers, and sustained some injuries, but not serious. A telegram from Hokianga states that Kirkpatrick, the victim of the coach accident, is in a critical condition. He is spitting blood. Further medical advice has been sent for.

The Hawera Cyoling Club have decided to hold their annual meeting on Saturday, 16th April, instead of Friday, 11th March. This alteration has been made so as to ensure the presence of a number of riders who take part in the cash meeting at Wanganui on Easter Monday. A regular fortnightly mail is noW despatched via 'Frisco and Vancouver, leaving Auckland and Wellington alternately every second Saturday, occupy, ing 32 and 34 days respectively to London. Direct steamers occupy from 42 to 50 dayß, and need only be used for parcels and mails. Tho News says:— Thomas Tilly, a young man, residing at Inglewood, was found drowned in the Maketawa river on Wednesday evening. He was last seen alive at 4 o'clock, when he notified his intention of going for a bathe. About two hours afterwards his body was discovered in the river, on the bank of which were his clothes. For some time past considerable anxiety hns been felt as to the state of Mr Gladstone's health, and, seeing that the Grand Old Man has just passed his 88th birthday, it is interesting to note what the British Medical Journal has to say of his condition :—" It is the fact that during the past autumn his health has been somewhat less satisfactory than usual. Mr Gladstone has always had a remarkably blow pulse, a characteristic very often observed in persons destined to attain an advanced age. This autumn it has increased from the usual rate of 62 to about 72, and on two or three occasions it has been for short periods very rapid. The pulse, however, is soft and elastic, and in general perfectly regular ; he is quite free from those most serious changes in the great organs often associated with old age, and he haß altogether got rid of an affection from which he suffered a good deal of inconvenience a few years ago. The facial neuralgia, from which he has suffered recently, appears to be due entirely to a local condition. Under suitable treatment the inflammatory symptoms have subsided, and it is believed he will completely recover in Cannes, the air of which place has always exerted a most beneficial effect on his system. Before leaving Hawarden Mr Gladstone was seen by Dr. Carter, of Liverpool, in consultation, and the opinion of his medical advisers was thai his general condition was wonderful in a man of nearly 88 years of age." It is only in America, of oourse, (says the Otago Daily Times) that anyone could and would steal a railroad, a feat that has been accomplished by a tramp, who had been victimising several farmers along the line of the abandoned Mesiden, Waterburjy and Connecticut River railway. This ingenious individual, who has already proved his fitness to be an American railroad magnate, made a house-to-house visitation along the line, telling the farmers that he had been sent to close up the affairs of the company, the land through which the road ran reverting to those who formerly owned it. He further declared that he was disposing of the stations, ties, tanks, &c., and as the prices at which he offered " these things were exceedingly low, he affected many sales— lOOdol being asked for a railway station, the price subsequently falling to sdol, of which Bdol was paid in cash and a formal receipt given, while in a deal involving lOOdol 2dol was formally accepted onaccourt. The death occurred at the residence of Mr E. P. Atkinson, Otaki, on Wednesday morning of the Hon. James Crowe Richmond, a once-prominent figure in politics. Captain Edwin wires that the barometer will rise generally in the North Island. A telegram from Pahiatua says that Lord Ranfurly has sent £25 to tbe relief fund. The fourth test matoh will begin at Melbourne on Saturday, 29th, instead of Friday, 28th, as originally fixed. Three members of the Educat Board retire next month through' effluxion of time, viz., Rev. J. Rose and Messrs Fry and Spurdle. It is understood that all three will seek re-election. Boy wanted to carry Stab between Normanby and Matapu. Clydesdale entire wanted. West Coast Farmers' Trading Association hold a clearing sale on aocount of Mrs C. Orchard (who is leaving the district) at her residence, Regent street, on Tuesday next. Nolan Tonka and Co. publish entries for Eltham sale, on Monday next. In addition to ordinary sales West Coast Farmers' Trading Association hold » speoial sale of drapery and clothing, at the mart, at 1*45 to-morrow afternoon. When You Havk A Bad Cold You want the best medicine that can be obtained, and that is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. You want a remedy that will not onjj give quick relief but effect a permanent cure. You want a remedy that wil relieve the lungs and keep ezpeotoration easy. You want a remedy that will counteract any tendency towards pneumonia. You want a remedy that is pleasant and tfaft to take.