ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7371, 24 January 1902, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(PBB PRBjS ASSOCIATION.)

Wanganui, January 23. R. W. Green, a well-known turner, met with a painful accident yesterday, his right forearm being badly broken owing to its being caught in the belting of one of his machines.

Christchurch, January 23.

Claude Smith, of Belfast, was driv* ing down Papanui road last night, with two ladies, when, in turning a corner, the trap capsized. Tbe ladies were slightly injured, but Smith received fatal injuries. He was taken to the Hospital, where he died.

It is probable an English Association jootball team will visit New Zealand next year.

Mr N. King's Toko sheep fair will bo held on February 6th.

Among those who graduated for matriculation at the recent university examination is A. Bamford, son of Mr George Bamford, of Hawera.

The Sydney City Council has a sum of £15,000 owing to it, which is composed of debts admittedly bad. The Council's overdraft is £138,032.

The New Zealand Times says : In view of the decisions recently come to by Lord Roberts, Commander -in - Chief of the British Army, people in Wellington are wondering when a reduction is to be made in the amount of gold lace worn by some local staff officers.

During the past nine yearts 13} millions have been spent by the various British home trade unions. Sixty per cent went for sickness, unemployed, funeral expenses, etc., 20 per cent on strike pay, and 20 per cent in " working expenses." — (From abstract report issued by Labor Department of the.Board of Trade.)

Punch's Almanac for 1902 contains a most amusing cartoon by the inimitable E. T. Heed, representing the aged Hip Van Kitchener on the top of a kopje in A.r>. 1950. " Aha," he exclaims to his venerable Tommies. " The only survivor coming in at last." To this the last of the Boers replies ; " Vaid a momend. Yod derms you gif me ? Mem gombleed indebendence P Oddervise I bleib always on gommando."

The most gratifying information which has ever been published in connection with New Zealand butter is that in which a distinguished London chemist has shown it to be the purest, and, consequently, the most valuable (given clean flavour), of all the produce of the colony's great rivals. The chemist in question is Mr William Jftgo, F.C.S., F.1.C., and the place where tbe great purity of New Zealand butter was demonstrated to the world was at the Society of Arts, London, during the course of a lecture on " The Chemistry of Confectioners' Materials and Prooesses."

The importation of cowries into British East Africa and Uganda, it is said, is now prohibited, the administration in those Protectorates having decided to put a atop to the use of these small shells for currency purposes. The reason for this step is (says a London paper) to be found in the fact that cowries have no intrinsic worth, and thus the local authorities came into possession of numbers of these shells, with which the natives paid the hut tax, without being able to turn them into money. For revenue purposes, cowries are absolutely worthless, and their use has now been discontinued in German East Africa, as well as in the British Protectorates.

Tbe Swedish census shows the lowest death-rate ever recorded by a civilised nation. During the last deoade it has been 16.49 per 1000. Norway comes next with 16.9, then England with 18 8. Thus, the Scandinavians are now the healthiest race in the world. One hundred years ago, the death-rate of these countries was 26.22. Considering tbe differences in distribution of population which exist between Sweden and our own country, it cannot be said that we, with so large a proportion of our people in crowded towns, come out very badly in comparison.— Science Sittings. County Council invites tenders. FISHING ! ! FISHING ! !

F. J. Wrigley has now landed for this season, imported direct from the best English makers, a splendid assortment of wooden and steel rods, split cane, ■greenheart, lanoewood, and hickory rods from 10s 6d to £3. Steel telescopic rods a speciality. New casts, new traces, new flies, new minnows, everything new, no old stock. Several new flies, minnows, and fishing sundries, that all fishermen Bhould inspect. Fishing licenses issued Fishing Bods, Reels, eto , repaired by an expert workman on the premises. — F. 3 Wrigley, Hawera. — Advt.