TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 4942, 19 May 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PBESS ASSOCIATION). AUCKLAND, Sunday. A serious- accident to a goods train napopened on'lhe Waikato line yesterday. , Following are the particulars, so far as is known: — As the train went round a curve at Pukekohe, a cow sprang on the line. The engine collied with it, and was ihrown off the line with two 'trucks, and down aneuibankment into a 'swamp. The driver, Leonard Keat; jumped to the right hand side, and in falling struck liis head on a sleeper : ho is not seriously injured. The stoker,! J. Soberteon, had a miraculous escape, having fallen headlong; into the swamp with the engine: Fiaher (butcher), Hornsby (ironmonger), and a young man named Gray, received contusions. The engine is one of the latest imported from England. • CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Professor Von Haast, director of the aiuseum^ has received an intimation by cable from London that the Royal Geographical Society has awarded him its goid medal lor his geographical researches and explorations in New Zealand. :■■:■•• v:. Sunday. At tho inquest on Fahey, who was poisoned at Eakaja, John Mason, by advice of his lawyer, refused to give evidence, but oth«Y witnesses showed that he had acknowledged hiving mixed strychnine with vinegar in a jug some time ago for the purpose of killing rats or birdsj and subsequently had thrown the contents of the jug away, but had not washed it out. When taking the' whisky from the jar to put in a bottle he used the same jug. The medical evidence was to the effect that if the vinegar was weak, at would not dissolve, the crystals of strychnine, which would adhere to the jug ; but strong spirit would at once dissolve them. The opinion pf the men who drank the whisky was, at first, that Mason had played a practical joke. The jury returned an, open verdict. ; Mr J. G. Wason intends standing for the Aahburton seat, vacant by the resignation of -Mr E. G. Wright. He addressed the electors at Chertsey last night.. He is in favor of a local railway board and against tand nationalisation and perpetual leases. He received a vote of thanks. ;■ /.,' • -.': DUNEDIN, Sunday. JjjAt the First Church to-day « collection' was made for the purpose of erecting a monument over the grave of the Rev, L. Mackie, who. was pastor for several years, and died>a few months ago. At themorn- • ing service LB9 was subscribed. . A serious accident happened yesterday at the Princess Theatre to a plumber named William Walker, a married man. He was one of the workmen making alterations in the lighting arrangements for the Opera Company, and while standing on one of the lime light gas meters, which was! supposed to be empty, and on which.he placed a lighted candle, an ex.plosion occurred, and the man's face was cut about terribly, and ail his teeth, with the exception of one, knocked out. He was ta'ien to the hospital. ■'