LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 26, 17 September 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

V’ Weather forecast.—-The indications are for moderate to strong easterly winds. The weather will probably be dmi and overcast at times, with mild and hazy conditions,' Barometer little novement;—Bates, Wellington.

A Press Association telegram states that* George Thomas, a goldsmith, aged 83, and single, belonging to Napier, died in the Wellington hospital to-day while underran anaesthetic for the purpose of undergoing a nasal operation.

A New York cablegram states that a passenger train from St. Louis to San Francisco was derailed and plunged into a creek at-Lebanon, Missouri. Over forty were killed or trapped in the ' cars and drowned.

A case" of supposed i smallpox is in isolation' at the Whangarei spital (states the Press Associate. The sufferer is a European residing fc iaikou. This is the place who t * epidemic last year, first mad, its earance. Steps are being take locate contacts. A later message - ates the case has been inquired into by the Health Department’s officials, who consider it to be acute chickenpox. The patient is a European from Waipu. There had been no smallpox there for a long period.

At the Taumarunui Magistrate’s Court' to-dayj Alexander Conrad and Thomas Thompson, on many charges of theft froin dwellihghouses and bush camps between Taumarunui and Ongarue, were convicted on three charges and sentenced to three months on each charge, 1 the charges to ■be cumulative. J.. Ey Conrad was sentenced to six months • for* theft. All the prisoners had been associated together in ithe series of thefts and .were arrested after a strenuous search by the police in wild country a week ago.—P.A.

A terrible fate (reports the Press, Association) befel the ten year old son of John Jellyman, Ashhurst, late yesterday afternoon, the boy being dragged to death by a horse, his neck, arms, leg, and several ribs being broken. Death must have been instantaneous. He was apparently leading the horse, which is supposed to have taken fright, and the. reins coiled round he boy’s body and neck, and he was'Bragge3 about a quarter of a mile, Tfxe horse jumped a fence and pulled the boy against it.

A violent assault, apaprently quite unprovoked, was committed on an elderly Chinese named Wong Joe, in Courtenay Place, Wellington, this morning (states the Press Association), Wong had just come out of a’countryman’s fruit shop, when he was set upon by a man, who knocked him down and kicked him violently on the jaw, inflicting severe injuries. The perpetrator walked unconcernedly away and was arrested in Tory Street. At .the police station he said his name w'as ■las. Little, and stated he only arrived i week ago from Whangamomona. He rave no reason for the assault except lint the Chinese had done him out of

bis job. The injured man was removed to the hospital suffering from a partial fracture of the lower jaw and severe shock.