MOTORS IN COLLISION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 37, 15 May 1917, Page 4

MOTORS IN COLLISION.

CAB RUNS INTO FALLEN TREE. A collision occurred on the Wangamoa Hill on Saturday afternoon between two motor cars, one driven by Mr Pickering and the other by Mr Hewlett (reports the “Colonist’?). The former was proceeding to Havelock and the latter was returning to return to town. While the car was coming up Gentle Annie a large fir tree on Mr Withers's property was blown down and fell across the road immediately in front of the car. Before it could be pulled up the car crushed into the fallen tree, the windshield and the brakes being smashed. The car contained Messrs Gardiner, Walker, Baggs, and Hale, besides the driver, and with the exception of Mr Baggs, who sustained a cut on the head, the party' escaped with a shaking. Had they been a second or two later, the car would have been caught by the tree.

Although he fell 180 feet down the shaft of a copper mine at Cobar, New South Wales, lately and received about a dozen fractures, James Bond, aged 31, a miner, was admitted to Sydney Hospital in a conscious condition. Bond's injuries were fractures of the right thigh,right kneecap, right ankle, left thigh, left leg, both arms in several places, and both collarbones, and a large incised wound ■ on the left leg. The remarkable feature of. Bond's extraordinary escape from being smashed to pieces was that he did not receive , either head or internal injuries, and when his mates reached him he was conscious and able to tell them what had happened. He was working in the mine close to the shaft, and while wiping his face with a cloth moved back a few feet. He stepped too far, and being unable to recover his balance, he fell dpwn the shaft. “You haves a wonderful thing in New Zealand called the census,’' stated Dr. Sadlier, Bishop of Nelson, in an address at the Town Hall the other evening. “Wonderful, I say, it is. When I first arrived in New Zealand about five years ago I was anxious to discover how many Church of England people there were in my parish. I found the figures all right, but have yet to find that all those people belong to the Church of England. I suppose I will have to wait until they die. There arc a large number of people in this -world regarding whoso religion nobody knows anything. When they die their relatives usually ask that the Church of England burial service should be rend over thorn. ’'

A remarkable case of poisoning arising from a bee sting occurred at Gisborne recently. The unfortunate victim was a little girl, the daughter of a local resident. The child had been a frequent visitor to an adjacent apiary, and as far as is known had never previously been attacked. On- this occasion singularly enough, there were very few bees about, but one* of the few stung the child on the head. The little girl'g cries immediately attracted attention, and the sting was removed within a minute of the attack. That the effects of the sting were of a serious nature was soon apparent, as the child quickly collapsed. No time was lost in summoning medical assistance, the child being reduced to a semi-con-scious state. An hour or two later it was noticed that the child's condition was not improving, and on the doctor arriving for the second time he promptly decided to remove the patient to a private hospital, where fully a week elapsed before the little girl was able to be moved home. From what can be the sting was evidently implanted in a vital artery, which rapidly transmitted poison through the system. The schemes by which extra financial assistance may be given to soldiers, up tb £2 a week, is now in working order, and the Central Board is dealing with an accumulation of applications. An Irish doctor sent this bill to a lady—“To curing your husband till he died, £25." For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/G 2/6.