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Nelson Evening Mail, 8 March 1916, Page 3

A runaway of -an unusual nature took place at Gisborne several days ago. After a funeral, the driver cf the hearse stopped to alio wthe undertaker .to get off. The driver was invited to have-a.cup of tea ,and he had 1 just reached the ground! after securing the reins, when the pair 'of horses da.rted off. They raced round the town at a mad gallop. The horses took the corner to Stout street . rather sharply, and the whole concern capsized with a crash, the horses rolling over each but strangely enough, the glass m the hearse and the pinnies were damaged, but strangel venough, the glass in the sides of the hearse was not broken. . The horses escaped injury.

The Queenstown correspondent of the Otago JD-aily Times states that- the Queenstown police received advice or* Wednesday morning from Mv .John' Patrick Mcßride, station-owner at Kawarau Falls, that three men, ■mamed Edward Waters,' Joseph Scollard, and- Alexander Cameron; were missing from his station. They left the, station at 6 p.m. on .Monday, stating ithat they would not be long away. They crossed the Kawarau river, and, were sten at 10 p.m. by Dr. Edie, of Frankton. He gave them a lift in his mdtor-car, and took them close to the edge of- the Kawarau river, which they had to cross by boat, and left them. The boat has been, touud.about five miles down the stream, bottom up, and it is feared that the men have been drowned. Arrahgemer.tr. have been "made to drag the river.,; which is very wide and in places from 20 feet to 40 feet deep.

"Last- month we said unpleasant things about one of Mr Hiley's officials who intruded - ; i.n an impudent way upon a railwayman's home" (says the New Zealand Railway Review"). • "Our opinion was that if the General Manager stands for that sort of thing, he would deserved to be insulted, per m-o subordinate officialdom with the swelled head. However, we are jrlad to tell •of the pleasant sequel. .Mr Hiley, so far from approving of the incident we pictured, has indicated to the. pompous chief actor in it that such measures are improper, and are not endorsed at headquarters. As a practical sign of displeasure, the department has" moved the. pompous addle-headed person into a new district. We hope, for his own good, that while on the long journey he will reflect upon former errors and resume work in a modest, chastened mood. Inspecting (if he does any more of it) must not be regarded as a business of spying and traps, but as'a helpful oversight of employees who ai'e neither sharps nor slaves."