THE NEAR EAST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5

THE NEAR EAST

WAR IN ANATOLIA. KEMALISTS RETREATING. * FALL OF ANGORA IMMINENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ATHENS, August; 31. The Kemalists have -abandoned their chief fortified points on the Angora line, and are being closely pursued. The Greeks expect to enter Angora before Sunday.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES SUDDEN DEATH. , A single man named William Harris, believed to be about 57 years of ago, an. employee of the Railway'Department, living at i\o. 148 Leith street, died very suddenly early yesterday axternoon. Ho was employed wheeling some castings to the storeroom at the Dunedin Railway Station, and was seen .by a train examiner named Liarold Mong to be lying across his barrow in such a position as to suggest that he was dead. The attention of Guard James Cameron was drawn to Harris, and on his going over to him he found that life was extinct. As the deceased had -been attended by a medical man, who prescribed .for him within the last few days, it is quite possible that a certificate of death will bo given, but in the meantime, tho police have taken charge of the body, which has been removed to the Morgue. TWO FATALITIES. (Pan United Putss Association.) AUCKLAND,- September 1. Tho schooner Cecilia Sudden, en route from Newcastle to Peru with coal, arrived in port to-day. The boatswain, Mervyn* Lloyd, aged 21, whose mother resides at Waihi, fell -from aloft a distance of 70ft, on Friday, breaking an arm and both legs, and receiving other injuries. The schooner was then 500 miles east of Cape Maria, and the captain decided to make for Auckland. Lloyd died 15 minutes before the doctor boarded the vessel. James M’Grath. a labourer, aged from 35 to 40 years, was fatallv injured to-day. He was engaged with others removing goods for the city electricity department, and was using a block and tackle on the second storey. A door fell _ from aloft, striking M'Grath and rendering him unconscious. He expired three minutes after his admission to the hospital. PRICE OF BUTTER. END OP THE SUBSIDY. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 1. The payment of the butter subsidy by the Government terminated yesterday, and at the same time the Order-in-Council limiting the retail price of butter to 2s 3d' per lb for cash over the couhter and 2s 5d for booked sales was. lifted. The position now, therefore, is that, factories, wholesalers, and retailers are ! froe to decide for themselves what shall bo charged in, the local market. They axe free of all restrictions. It is announced that the factories are going to advance "the price of butter for the Wellington market 2d per lb. DAZZLING HEADLIGHTS TAXI OWNER PENALISED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 1. An interesting point to motorists was determined in a case in the i Magistrate's Court, in which a taxi owner sought to recover £2 damages caused through a mounted -man riding into plaintiff’s, _ car The defence raised was that immediately the car came round the comer the glare from the dazzling headlights prevented defendant from seeing anything. His horse got out of hand, and collided with the car. The -magistrate {Mr Salmon) held that plaintiff’s failure 'to dim headlights was negligence on his part, and gave judgment against tho plaintiff..