PAKAWAU.
Messrs T. Field (Chairman), J. Shaw, F. Flowers, E. Fletcher, and A. R. Davidson.
Earthquake. —At twenty-five minutes past four yesterday afternoon a slight and short shock of earthquake was felt in Nelson. A sharp shock was felt at Wanganui at Wanganui at 3.24 p.m. Accident. — Mr X, Palmer, son of Mr C. G. Palmer of Waimea West, met with a painful accident on Friday evening last. While opening a bottle of lemonade he used a spike to force down the glass stopper, when the bottle burst inflicting a deep gash at the base of the thumb of the right hand severing thetendons. Mr Palmer had to be conveyed to Brightwater * for surgical attendance, |and chloroform had to be administered before the wound could be dressed.
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Colonist, Volume XLV, Issue 10407, 13 May 1902, Page 1 (Supplement)
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