MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 254, 8 December 1904, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, Yesterday. Ai H trtdebitts of the Cold Storage Ico Association. Mt Gameron read a paper on New IZe'aJafJd'S igtowing imports. He said New Zeafaifla<,#£ a producer, did (not threaten British agriculture, and the introduction of frozen meat dM not curtail use, nor lower price of Homegrown meat, but extended the consumption, enabling the poor to obtain a sufficiency ol sound and wholesome food. - Mr Pearson ...has floated the "Standard" ami "St.. James' Q-azette" Company, with <a capital of £350,400. The death is announced of Lord Hoibhousc. imiSBANE, Ycsterhav. The Queensland Cup resulted : — Painter 1, Seabreeze 2, Joyance 3. Thirteen started. Won by a length and a half. T-ime, 3mins .'Hfsecs Dividend, £4 13s. MELBOURNE,, Kx&terd,\y Sailed, s.s. Monowtvi. SYDNEY, Yosti>i\l \y. Sailed, at 2.40 p.m., s.s. Mokoia. AVESTPORT, Yesterday. Corporal J. Fountaine, of the Westprort Field Artillery, while practising in Victoria Square with the team picked to compete at the forthcoming Christchurch Military Tournament, fell fram the limibcr, and was run over toy a wheel of the 9-pounder carriage, and sustained a bad fracture of the right leg 'below the knee. A girl 15 years old, named Allport, wlwta playing with her little 'brother at her parents' j))acc, J»>ss and had both bones of her rigiit leg fractured. Henry Case met with an accident to-day when eng>agved widening the Denniston. track. Some stones and a tree stump fell on him, inflicting serious internal injuries amd a baxl injury to his hip.