LATE DOMINION NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 29 September 1913, Page 2

LATE DOMINION NEWS.

TRAIN AND MOTOR CAR. PER UNITED PEBSS ASSOCIATION. CHItISTCHUIICH Sept. 27. A collision took place this morning at Colombo Street crossing between the north train and a motor-car driven by a man named Hardy, a ! traveller for Bing, Harris and Co. Hardy stopped on the rails waiting for shunting trucks on another set of rails to pass, snd did not notice the train coming. The en-gine-driver, however, saw tho car, applied the brakes, and the train was only moving slowly when it .struck tho car. The car was pushed sideways for some distance, but was not overturned and was only slightly damaged.

FOUND DROWNED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. The police to-day received advice from the constable at Tinui to the effect that the body of a man about 60 years of ago had been found in tho Wharemat river. It had apparently been in the water for some, time and its identity is unknown.