LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1077, 26 August 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

(Special to the Daily Telroiuph.) Auokland this day. FATAL ACCIDENT "William Steele, aged 38, son oi J. Stoole of Mount Albort, was killed in that dis» triot last night by falling ovor a 30embankment while walking along the', railway lino. Ho loavss a wife and four young children. MAN KILLED AT liAEO A man namod 11, Palmer wis killed at Eaoo yesterday by the slipping ol a jack ho was using to raise a log. GREATER AUCKLAND At a conference of city and suburban representatives it was dotcriniued to set up A committeo to obtain full information for a sohomo of amalgamation. PADEREWSKI RECITALS Thoro is a big rush for tickets for tho Padordwski recitals. When tho ofllco oponed 50C half guinea and 100 guinoa tickets wero booked. Barricades wcro ereoted inside tho shop, but these wore brokon down by the crush, and it was considered ncoossary at ono time to close the shop. DEATH OF AN OLD IDENTITY Mr. John Cromwell, a very old resident (having arrived in Auckland with his par* ents in'tho'Ship Jano Gifford in 1842), who for years carried on successfully a busiuoss as coufoctioncr in Queen street in a property acquired by his parents, and who fifteon years ago ictircdJiom business and sinco thou lived a retired life, paßSßti (iwoy yostordny At his Into rcsidcncOj New North Road, after a very sovero attaok of influenza, at tho ago of 64, Ho leaves a widow, three sons and two daughters, SINGULAR CASE An extraordinary caso of drunkenness came undor tho notico of Mr Blomfiold, S.M., at tho Police Court yesterday. _ Defendant was a respect ably-dressed middleaged mtiu. Sab-Inspector Black statod that Sergeant Dow linil found dofomlant early in tho morning in Victoria-street helplessly drunk. Howos quite naked, and olothes had to be brought from tho Central Hotel, whoro he had been staying. He had been drinking heavily, Accused was remanded to prison for a week, in ordor to bo medically treated. THE FOOTBALL MATCH The weather promises fino for tho Auclt-laud-Taranaki football match to-morrow. In tho Auckland team, McKonssio being unable to play, Carlaw is included. GALE ON THE TASMAN SEA, A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. BARQUE ASTRACAIiA MEETS WITH A HURRICANE. PUTS INTO AUCKLAND. SAILS BLOWN AWAY AND BULWARKS STOVE IN. By Telegraph.—Pre»« Association. ~'i :;i„vNt>, this dm The ship A'traoana, from Geelong, bound for Algoa Bay with 2470 tons of wheat, has arrived in a disabled conditions Sbo was driven far out of her course by adverse weather in the Tasman Sea; and three weeks ago, when off Cook's Strait' eho encountored a hurricane for two days, and shipped very heavy seas. Her cabins wore flooded, and her bulwarks, nautical instruments, several sails, and two yards wero carried away, Part of tbo poop was stovo in, and a largo amount oi cargo was jettisonod. The vessel is leaking a little.