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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 13 January 1920, Page 5

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NEL'&ON ASSOCIATION SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP ‘ ■ K AMUR A. V. .B^-NKS The match : Kamur%. V. Banks tsam was commenced pn a ” * in their first; innings^,scored ,5i Wclls not out 24). Kamuras first iunines realised 283. W. Wilson, ' who retired at’ 101, hatted. With great freedom, his score including . 9 fours- and-9 ’threes. hollowing aie the scores; — ' -A ■ BANKS—Ist Innings. Miller, c Hull, bG. Thomason 0 Monsmi, b Louissou Albertson, b Lomssou ' Thomas, run put , „« F. Wells, not put Schofield, hj Home . " Crnwshaw (capt.) ? b Gome ■ Fianklyn, b Gorrio ” McCarthy,' b Gorrie * Dee. b Gorrie JJ Everett, b Louisson - Byes Total , - " ’ , r,. Bowling: Louisson took 3 wickets for 24 rung; O. Thomason. 1 for 6; F. Gorm, 5 lor 13. KAMURA—Iet Innings W. Wilson, retired 101 McLean, b Schofield 17 Hull (oaptl), ruh out . 30 Kemnitz, b Franklyn ’ 28 G. Thomason, b Frank!yn 7 A. Wells, 1.b.w., b Franklyn 4 Louisson. _ b Franklyn 0 Pike, not out 50 Gorrie, b Franklyn 0 Sixtus, b Crawshaw 0 Guy. b Franklyn 16 Byes 30 Tota] t 283 Bowling: Schofield took 1 wicket for 25 runs; Crawshaw, 1 for 87; Albeitson,pO for-13; Wells, 0 for 18; McCartihv, 0 for 25: Miller, 0 for 29.; Franklyn, 6 for 39. The match will be continued next Saturday.' ■

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. DROWNING FATALTI’Y AT NAFIiiR , (United Frees Association.; NAPIER, Tim Day.. ■ Percy Brandon Jones, motor gajrajgp propri#or, of Napier, wa drowned itf the Tutaekuri river whijo bathing, He was - piOmcking with ilia) wife and .children. .When bajtbing withtwo •children they got into difficulties, and Jones, who was a strong swimmer w-aa drowned m comparatively ahaUdfr waiter. The children floated down the nver to . aiei-y. ills wile witnessed the distressing occurrence. INVEH'JARGIL FATALITIES {Uniiea Service.) INVERCARGILL This Day. The infant son of William Plunkett of 'South Hillend. 17 months olid, wandered from tiro hou:, e and was fou ,- d floating in a sheep dip life being extinct. , • . ' Duncan James Mathieson, a returned soldier, assistant .at the - Birch wood Dairy Factory was burnt to death i» his hut on Sunday morning. The origin of the fire i s unknown. DEATH FROM BURNS. (United Press Association.* TAUMART.TNTJI, This Day. Rita GoodTr, the twenty-two -'yg&r old daughter of A. J, Goodsir, former, met with a n accident, on Saturday night, which ended fatally. She returned from a- holidav at Kami 1 to, ■, on : Saturday. and a J ,tended; the pictures, and as her parents wore living a few. miles out, she went to stay with some frienk- in town. At eleven o'clock the family were in bed, and, the first they heard was the girl rushing into their bedroom in flames, and screaming. She then ran to a tap in the kitchen-. Her friends followed, and extinguished .the flames, hut the girl was badly burned from the waist' to the neck. She Swafc' . admitted to the Hospital at midnights but died early this morning. Deceased * stated! that she had' been cleaning gloves w.t.h benzine near jl lighted candle, TAXI RUN INTO A TRAIN *' (United Press Association., DUNEDIN. Jan. ; Yesterddy afternoon, there 1 '"‘“"a ■■ serious accident at the ’railway cjfriw- ,‘f mg at Alotgiel, which resumed 1 in several persons being seriously injured, while one woman died at the resuliv of the accident. A taxi, it appears,’■: was caught by a passing train while \ crossing the line, and all its, oo?upanJt» were more ,or less serlpusJ-v ‘ .krtoefiSd •>■ /about. The names of the’ imlSpnfi<injured are': Wi If red/ Herbert ’iTUbnjy ~ Mrs Tilbury, Thoma§ McGoskcr; ' Jojits Tilbury (aged S years) Archibald. ■' bury (aged about 4 years), Rif if®*'’-,,, Cosker "is a brother in law of 't.-M* v; Tilbury and was-on a visit to Dqitedin > from Wei iiigfton. He i 3 an in the employment of ‘ the Governmfen Ir _■ jiud 1 about 50 years of age. Mr Tilbury resides a!fc 252 Oxford street, Dunedin, and ' is. a" taatf-dri-frer.' He ’lA' known as a careful ■■driveA X. /■ „ The ambulance reached the steneyof * the accident shortly before 1' p.nt, binyleft .soon afterwards for Dunedin ’ nfife . pital with ‘Mr Tilbury and ■ children. Three doctors werC i u attendance With the exception of the bay Archibald^-’air were unwnack.. ous when ’*he doctors-and- ambulpa#*. Mi's Tilbury, who tvas too.m tVbe dt 3.1S iloafciel. -Mt McOobWT is only *»gim ; injured. ' It is' understood that bmy is suffering ‘from eewous,UJOT,. bo his head. The condition of Joy°». v -j itbury i hated -be serious >'bn?- - Archibald Tilbury is oob badly , m : . - jured.-- , ■ if ’ ■ ■ ■!> ■ "? BEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT (United Pre« I «soriation;J 4 .. PALMERSTON NORTH, |an. The sduth-bovgjd Napier dashed in*o a. Dap at a level cro««n{( ; ; on the Fox ton hup this afternoon. .M®.; gig was wrecked, and, 'the horse k and Mr and Mr, Sand ford were injured. . They were removed Jo , Hopiial. where Mr Sand lord 1 dueoi o». six thi 3 morning-, -> . / ! child severely scalded ; * (United Pres* Aymciatipp 1 . ATTCKLATO,; At an inquest concerning.. of a child,. Victor Chafes aged '2,Jf years., it was stated chi/d had. apparently’ tripped bucket, of hpifc water The du-d i very -severely Hcalded and wfedl . Jp*,’ hospital. The .'.Coroner dipt, of fpom shock foliovrtng *fej| cideirtal sea'dan g. Thf. deceased iW" De son of. .Charles Garinty,, tiUTSOiy% man, of Waimaku. '