ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 2 June 1911, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(.1 IV.-ss As. c ;oci:itit*:i.) \ ‘i!:r.-;Ldii!; i i l . La-i Ni'.-'A. Mrs. Bobcits, v, ho fell over ;i cii.i at i.\ 11 1 !t <-;i i:ii Monday hist,. died at tin--3a:;•',]>!tl to-night, no: having rcg hied consciousness. The mutonmm Mnsgr.tve, injure! in Hi; tramway accident, is still unconscious, and is in a precarious condition. FOOTBALL. NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION. (Tor Asse.cia mm i Wellington. Last Night. The management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union met to-n'ght. A team of To Ante College Old lays asked permission to tour New South Wales.— 11 was decided Unit they In informed that the committee could not accede to the request, but they be re- ommeuded to renew the mines t next season. T. Para la nskd permission for the Maori team which toured Australia last year to play a few matches in the North Island of New Zealand.—lt was decided to ask for particulars as to whether the team proposed to tour us representing the Bay of Plenty Union, decision, being meanwhile deferred. The Nelson Union' asked for a loan. —lt was decided to reply that no funds are available. g THE ASSOCIATION GAME. Wellington, East Night. The council of the New Zealand Football Association met to-night. It was decided that the matter of a visit from a. New South Wales team be deferred till the end of the season, when the question will be considered with a view of arranging a tour next year. A communication from the Now Plymouth Club complaining about the mania r in which the affairs of the Taranaki Association were managed was referred back to the club, the meeting holding that communications from clubs should be forwarded to the council through the governin g association. The Manawntn Association notified that it had arranged for a match with Wanganui to be played on dune 3. and asking Ilia council’s permission for a game to take place. —The application was granted. It was decided to ask the Canterbury Association to arrange a dale for its match with Otago and to notify it that a challenge for the Brown Shield had been received from Manawntn. It was decided that 15 per cent, of the net proceeds of the Cantorbury-Otago match be retained bv tbn council, and that the New Zealand Referees’ Association bo asked to appoint officials. . SISRMAN BY REV. A. H. COLVILE The Rev. A. H. Coli lie, a prominent member of the Oxford Untvoi ;;!t> XV in the early nineties.' unci a w'll known South .of England representative, preached an cl in, no v. I: sermon ;\l Eeildin.g on Sunday, in the conns-* of which ho made r.omo very pertinent, remarks on New Zeal and V national game. Ho repeated to players lin advice a Devonshire farmoi had given his son when taking the bov to school • “Now, my boy, play fair and third fair. If you win, don’t crow. I 1 you lose, don’t howl.” (fond rahs said Air Colvile, that wo all mighi net upon throughout, our lives. Con tinning on the subject of Now Zee land’s national game, ho said it wan a game ho had played since he war/ a litt-E boy. and in many cr.untpias. He said this from no spirit of egotism, but because when • a clergyman spoke on any subject he was net cup posed to be conversant with. he wa; expected to show his credent h Is.' Ho had been informed, he said, that football was going down in the Drminion, and on inquiry he was tub the reason was the betting on id. game and the brutal play. Sp.'ok mg on those heads, Mr Colvile s.d. that betting at any time or on anything was* an evil. For rpectutoi! to bet was bad enough, and was the cause of bad play and a had spin being introduced, by their partial outbursts and partisan comments on the lino; but for players to bet was unthinkable. He urged spectators and players alike to set their faces against betting, even shilling wagers, for the principle of the thing. On the subject of rough play, ho sal-1 i" football itself, although a “hard” game, there was no brutality, though sometimes the players introduced it. players certainly were called on to take hard knocks, but that did not constitute brutality. Tie would regret it exceedingly if the game Hereto lose its popularity. He urged the young men of New Zealand to play the game for its own sake, as it was one of those outdoor recreations which, when not abused, bad a great, moral influence, and was one of the gifts of “Him 'Who took pleasure in the work of His hands.” THE CENSUS. A COMPARATIVE SUMMARY. (Per Press Association.l Christchurch, Last Night. In connection with the census, the lion. D. Bucldo lias supplied for publication the following summary: 1911. 1900. Inc. North Island 303,832 470,732 87,100 South Island 443,422 411,340 32,082 Stewart Island. 35(5 304 s:’ Chatham Is. 197 197 Kermatlcc Is. 4 5 Total 1.007,811 888,578 119.2.04 (Exclusive of Maoris, Cook and Niue Islands.) 1 N.T. S.I. Counties 277,413 218.559 Boroughs ; 282.393 22T0 11 Shipping 2028 1000 Adjacent Islands 055 ISO Alain Trunk R!y 143 Total for Bill 503.832 443,422 Total for 1900 470,732 411,340 Increase 87,100 32.082 ISLANDS POPULATION. Islands. —Stewart Island, 350: Chatham Islands, 197 (1900 figures); Kermadee Islands, 4: total for Bill, 557; total for 1900. 500: increase. 51. THE DOMINION. North Island 503.832 South Island 443.422 Stewart Island 350 dial ham Islands 19/ Kormadec Islands 11 T'ol al for 1911 1.107,811 Total for 1000 888,508 Increase 110,233 I NCR EASES. North Island 87.100 South Island 32.082 Islands 51 Total 119.23::