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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2548, 8 July 1909, Page 4

In response to inquiries (says an exchange) Burttyislmv, the driver of the train which crushed in an immense rack in the Mauawatu Gorge, last week, declared emphatically that- the train had been saved from a serious disaster by the effect of the TVcstinghouse brakes. They kent the rear of the train rigid. Had the old brakes been in existence the passenger cars would have been telescoped. Burtenshaw' added that he always expected trouble in that locality in wet weather, and he was consequently keeping a shorp lookout. The quarry, however, is approached on a curve, and he did. not see the obstruction until he was about .eight truck lengths away. He knew that lie must go into it, but he put the brakes on. and the next second crashed into the rock, lie wondered on which side the loeoiliotive was going to be thrown —on to the quarry or down the embankment. Meanwhile the locomotive had loft, the rails, and was going her way into the quarry, where she fell on the side M lie .twisting about until she finally stopped. / . At birth a male baby is about one® fifth heavier than a female, while the former’s brain weighs one-sixth more. For Child reads Hacking Cough at night AYoods’ Great Peppermint Cure. It 6d and 2s 6d. A town in North Prussia has decreed that any woman who promanades the streets in a trailing skirt will be fined 80s.