ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A YOUNG MAN SHOT

WOMAN JUMPS FROM A

TRAMCAR

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

| AUCKLAND, May 2. Charles Comins, a young man residing at Qhinewai, was accidentally shot in the right shoulder By his brother's gun yesterday while after game. The injury is not regarded as serious, , , . "•„ A middle-aged woman named Mrs P. Allen, a resident of Epsom, alighted from a swiftly-movirfg 'tramcar in Manukau Road to-day;- and, falling, sustained severe injury to. her head. She was removed to the hospital. Her husband worbs at Cashmere's Bush, Katikati, and, in company with her three small children, she was to have left Auckland to-day to join him. Her condition is serious' /

'•' Some little ago," says Mr J. G. Boyle, Kelmscott, W.A., "I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to take a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy I decided te giro it a trial, and to my great satisfaction was completely cured by the time I had finished the first bottle." For sale by J. Br-nnirig, Blenheim, and W. SyiH", "Picron. *

A Press Association telegram frorrAuckland states that Mr S. Ziman, the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1908, was farewelled to-day at a large gathering, attended by University professors and stu-lents. The Mayor (l\lr Mysrb,) made a congratulatory speech.

It is a well-known fact," said a member of th« Christchurch Fruitgrower.;' Association, "that quick fences are alive with scale." Recently the Association suggested to the Minister for Agriculture that the owners of quick fences should be compelled to spray them, to ensure the cleanliness of orchards. The Minister replied, however, that he could not call upon owners throughout the country to spray, but it would be well for owners of hedges round orchards and in the immediate vicinity to be required to spray 1/hem. Some discussion xqok place on the letter, the hope being expressed that the Railway Department would be compelled to spray its hedges near orchards. It was finally agres^ to thank the Minister for his reply, and to suggest to him that all quick iencrs wil'vri iivo, chains oi an ordisr<l should'be sprayer--- -■•