ACCIDENT TO MR CHAMBERLAIN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2522, 16 July 1902, Page 15

ACCIDENT TO MR CHAMBERLAIN.

♦■ SOME DAYS' REST REQUIRED. LONDON, July 7. Mr Chamberlain met with a slight! cab accident, and received a wound on the forehead. The Colonial Conference to-morrow has been postponed, i July 8. Mr Chamberlain this morning .nspected and addressed 158 Haussa troops at the Colonial Office. He was driving in the- evening from the House of Commons to the club when the horse slipped, projecting Mr Chamberlain against a hansom cab window, causing a savere, but not dangerous, cut; 3vx from the centre of the forehead outwards. He remains at Charing Cross Hospital for a day or two, needing nuiefc after the shock. The King sent to inquire as to his condition. Hundreds of Commoner*, colonial Premiers, and the Agentsgeneral were amongst the callers at th« hospital. July 9. Mr Chamberlain is progressing favourably. July 10. Mr Chambei'lain's improvement is maintained .

The Oamaru Mail understands that tho amount definitely promised towards the local fallen troper^' memorial ha? reached about £200, apart from the tunu voted by the Borough and County Councils. The Sydney Evening Now 3 states that, according to information placed before the Water Supply Commission, the consumption of water per head by the population to which the Sydney water supply is available is less than that in any other Australian city. The News &ay 3: — Sydney, f0.% instance, consumes far less water per head than does Dunedin, a city in a latitude very cold when compared with that cf the metro- 1 polis of New South Wales, and largely peopled by a stern and wild race, who may be children of poetry, but have be_«i gensrally, and no doubt wrongly, credited with a limited disposition for tho use of water, either externally or internally.