ACCIDENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14237, 1 July 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

RIDERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. i?re«s Asaociation-By Telegraph-Copyright MELBOURNE, June 30. Four jockeys, McGregor, Cosgrove, Scastream, and Howie, received more or less serious injuries in various races at the Moonee Valley Meeting. BREACH OF THE LAW. In the House of Commons, Mr Lytteiton raised an interesting debate upon the question of the payment of £3OO to the Transvaal members of Parliament. Mr Lyttelton urged that the Colonial Office should have instructed the Governor, who ought to have prevented a definitely-declared breach of the law.

Mr Rufus Isaacs replied that the Colonial Office would carefully consider the matter. The Governor ought to do as the Ministers of the colony advised.

itr Balfour said it was an extraordinary doctrine that a Governor was obliged to do illegal acts if Ministers so advised.

Messrs Steel and Maitland declared that there had been a gradual declension. The Premiers desired that the nations composing the Empire should be considered as co-ordinate and that .the Secretariat should be responsible to them, but the whole attitude of the Colonial Offie* had been to regard the United Kingdom ~os one body, and the Dominions as semi-eirternal appendages, with the Secretariat a l * a mere addendum to the Colonial Ontee.

CASTLE WRECKED BY EXPLOSION. LOSS OF LIFE. Received 15.15 R.m., June 30th. DUBLIN. June 30. The Earl of Huntingdon's Sharavogue Castle, Birrs. King's County, was partially wrecked by an acetylene gas explosion. The stable boy was killed, and three other persons were badly injured.