HOCKEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 13 September 1909, Page 1

HOCKEY.

WAKATU (4) V. ST. JOHN (1). The .hockey season was brought to a close dn Saturday' with the Wakatu v. St. John 'match. Wakatus, by their win, by 4 goals to 1, have gone through ;he season undefeated A case of wholesale gas' poisoning which bordered, on a- catastrophe oecunrred lately at the* little Westphalian town of Hoerd? under remarkable circumstances, remarks jin English paper. The Main g** P>P«» which connects the smelting furn'aees with the mines, had "been cleaned, and someone forgot to doso one of the ventilators. When" the gas was again turned on the fumes escaped in a terrible volume ■ and with great swiftness, filling the entire neighbourhood. All the persons in the street at tho time fell to the ground insensible, ahd those hastening t-o their assistance met'the: same fate. Soon the whole street was filled with apparently dead and, dying people. The fumes even penetrated the houses in the vicinity.. More than one family at supper fill unconscious in their seats. The panic was indescribable. The alarm signals wore sounded, and the gas w»b finally turned off. No cases proved fatal. A re-Whiter looks upon this incident in hia work as something of a record. In 68 sets of his traps (saya the "MHlton ■Mirror") hje never filled to have a catch, registering '3170 rabbits, whielj were trucked from Mount Stuart to Burnslde. At a dinner in Blakesley, Northamptonshire, there - sat down two ■ three fathers, threo sons, two grandsons, and one great : «randaon„ all .of tbe name of John i Grantham. Four of the John Grauthams represented-four'.generations. A dog has as much right to be on the road as a motorist, Said the judge at Bipon County Court in giving 7 judg" ment against a motorist for killing »" dog. "You should have prilled no,'' he added, ''and given the dott the oo+tr,y. «* ryv.r.h^ c A -?? ?~?. vrr.*-'.-*' " "V. '.-.[""i> Z- :Z: "s -'"cr •'..? T"-V.j > of Niagara. '4' -■O'r'.r.^ tlt» reek ;rwa.v:at the rate of five yards in four years. .»? ' —-. ,/. ■:■ ■>■..... .