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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1610, 7 January 1903, Page 29

About 1.45 p.m. on Sunday,' a wharf labourer named Oscar Moss, while sitting pn the edge of the Queen’s Wharf, where the Manama is moored, fell between the steamer and the wharf. When he was rescued it was found that he had suffered a fracture of the right leg below the knee and a large cut on the back of the head. A constable immediately telephoned for a doctor and the ambulance, and had the man conveyed to the hospital, where his injuries were attended to. Moss is said to have been subject to epileptic fits, and it is believed that the accident was the result of one of these seizures. After admission to the hospital his condition became very critical, and but slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. He had been engaged as a ship’s fireman until recently, and had no known place of abode.

The Premier has been in communication with the Agent-General in reference to the frozen and fresh meat contracts for South Africa. The AgentGeneral cables that at an interview with the Under-Secretary of State and the War Office, he strongly urged that preference should be given to colonial meat. Ho gathered that preference would be given as far as practicable. Separate tenders will be invited for frozen and fresh meat. The tenders aro ; to he delivered at Capetown, Durban' and Pretoria by the 3rd February. Par--ticulars will be sent out in a -few days. Tenders are already advertised in the? cclony, but the Premier lias cabled to Mr Pilcher, the Government agent at Capetown, for further details. The Premier has also communicated with Lord Milner and with the general commanding in South Africa, and has urged that the contracts be given to the British colonies, and he so split up that each colony may participate. “ There is nothing new under the sun.” Professor Lannelongue, ■c. the French* Academy of Medicine, asserts that he has found unmistakable ces of appendicitis among the mummies or ancient Egypt®