INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Argus, Volume XX, Issue 3092, 27 January 1906, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION]

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wanganui, Last Night. The engine of a train from Hawera with excursionists returning fron the band contest was derailed at Moraohaki, carrying three leading passenger cars with it. There were 60 excursionists aboard. Those in the leading cars had a narrow escape. The cause of the accident was probably due to the cars following the engine jumping points and running on the side track. The engine was badly damaged, and the permanent way torn up for 40 yards. The accident happened about midnight, and the passengers reached here at 6.20 a.m.

Auckland, Last Night. A painful accident occurred at the Ellerslie railway station this afternoon. The stationmaster, Mr Charles White, was getting on to the van of a train which was moving off on its way to town when he slipped, and the wheels passed over his toes, severeiy crushing them. The injured man was at once taken to the Auckland Hospital, and it is possible some of the injured members will have to be amputated. Mr White was formerly stationmaster at Drury and is well known all along the line. Wellington, Last Night.

The body of a man between 35 and 40 years of age, named Swan, was found in the harbour near the Queen’s wharf to-day. Waimate, This Day. Henry Sides, a farmer at Waihoa Downs, was found in a paddock about halt-a-mile from his house yesterday, shot dead. He went to bring in the cows, taking his gun with him. As he did not return for breakfast Mrs Sides sent her boy to look for his father. The boy found him dead with his gun lying beside him. It is supposed that the deceased tripped and fell on the gun, one barrel of which went off, the charge lodging in deceased’s chest. Dunedin, This Day.

Miss Brown, daughter of Professor Brown, of Auckland, who was run over by tne express in Princess-street, has taken a turn for the better. She is still suffering from severe shock but no serious consequences are anticipated.

THE LABOUR PARLIAMENT. Wellington, Last Night. Cabinet, owing to the employers having refused to take part, and the exacting conditions asked for by a few of the Labour organisations, has decided to abandon the Labour, Industrial and Agricultural Conference. Pahiatua, This Day. Speaking at a banquet last night, Mr Seddon reierred to the abandonment of the Labour Parliament. The idea of the Government, he said, had been to bring employers and employees and farmers and industrial unions together to discuss and explain matters, and act rather as a Conciliation Board. He deeply regretted that the Employers’ Association had refused to meet the labour unions and associations, and he believed by that refusal they had weakened their case. The moral effect of that refusal would be to give workers a much higher opinion and to strengthen their case throughout the length and breadth of the country. The Premier announced that the Imperial Colonial Conference in London had been postponed for a year. BAND CONTEST. Hawhba, Last Night. The final tost resulted : Wanganui, 116 j Woolston, 115 ; Timaru, 105 ; Palmerstone, 104 ; Taranaki, 03. Wanganui wins the £SO prize for the quickstep and £IOO for the tests. A slight financial loss is expected on the meeting.