ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Mr John Little, fifth electrician at the Wellington municipal power-house, mot with a serious accident on Sunday. In the course of his duties Mr Little was putting in a switch when, through some cause, he received a flash of electricity; rigid across tho upper part of his body, badly burning Ids face and hands. He was removed to tho hospital, and at a late hourlast night ho was reported to bo in a serious condition. Mr Little is a married man. ■ Information was received by Superintendent Norwood last evening that Frederick Henry Evans, 64 years of age. a married man, dropped dead at Trentham racecourse, where ho was employed, yesterday afternoon. Deceased had not been attended by a doctor for some considerable time past,

Some interesting facts concerning Japan’s methods in the Marshall and Caroline Islands were given tho other day by Mr Thomas J. McMahon in a lecture before tho Royal Photographic Society. In the Marshalls there are 10,000 native Christians, and those were praying day and night for British protection,! but, as Mr McMahon said, they wore hot'consulted. The Japanese announced that they would govern on British linos j but they have suppressed or rendered inactive tho schools and missions, and the natives want to get these back again. In Japanising the islands, the Japanese/are as thoroughgoing as the Gormans used to bo. Their hospital work among the natives is admirable, and their schools, in which the Japanese language is compulsory, _ are very efficiently conducted. “Every King and Chief," Mr McMahon said, “had boen ordered to Japan, and nothing had been, omitted to impress them with the power, and genius of tho Japanese. Wherever they went moving pictures were taken, so that the natives could see the wonders of Japan and’ share their rulers’ experiences. Every article imported was made in Japan, and tho natives were wearing > Japanese clothes.” As Mr McMahon says, it will be well to keep an eye on Japanese policy in thesi regions.