NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1087, 28 March 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(By' Telegraph.—Press Association.) 4 . A TOWN CLOCK. Auckland, March -27. Mr. Arthur Myers, M.P., has offered to present a clock for tho tower of the now Town Hall, which is rapidly nearing completion. In making tho, offer, he stated '111 his letter to the Mayor that he did 80 in view of tho fact that it was his privilege, when Mayor of Auckland, to /be connected with the inception of tho. Town Hall, and as a mark of his appreciation of the confidence extended to him by the ■ citizens by giving their consent to this Vnd tho various other schemes that ho ! 4iad submitted to them. A CABLE REPAIRED. Auckland, March 27. ' The cable repairing steamer Iris, which /left Auckland some weeks ago to effect rei pairs to tho French cable between Bunda*berg and New Caledonia, returned to (Auckland yestorday. The Iris located, and repaired the breaks in the cable, four in f number. An A.B. named J. Donovan fell down one of the vessel's holds and received severe scalp wounds and other injuries, ibsing rendered unconscious for soveral (days. On arrival at Auckland he was conIviyed to the hospital, where he is doing .Well. - GISBORNE STABLES,BURNT. i Gisborne, March 27. Another fire occurred at Makaraka on ■Saturday night, destroying Gaine "Carrington's stables, on tho opposito side of the road to whero Sorry's house was-d«r. Grayed that morning. The origin of this dro is also unknown. The insurauce on the building amounted to «EIOO in tho Norwich Union. Tho contents, which wcro mostly saved,, were insured for s£7s. MARTHA jTAINUI. j Napier, March 27. Martha Tainui, the half-caste Maori, who has- victimised tradespeople in all parts of the Dominion,'was to-day sentenced to three months' imprisonment for obtaining .goods by false pretences. ..At the expiration 'of her sentence she is to be sent to New Plymouth reformatory.

BANKRUPT BROUGHT BACK. ' Gisborne, March 27. W. M'Murraj;, !i bankrupt who was arrested at Hamilton after a. resolution of his creditors, was brought before the Registrar of the Supremo Court to-day. The amount of' indebtedness is about .£250. The Registrar said the Act required that debtor be kept' in qustody until ho found sufficient sureties to appear from time to time. Debtor said he was unable to ob- ' tain sureties. The Registrar said that ■as the debtor had already gone he would have to insist on sound Sureties. He stipulated sureties at two, of .£75 each.

TARANAKI OIL. New Plymouth. March 27. No. 3 bore is still giving off a tremendous amount of gas : and about sixteen barrels of oil daily. Attempts are being mado to bore. deeper iii order to test the jast oil measures.' No. 3 bore at Moturoa is still giving off a great pressure of gas, somewhat retarding drilling . operations. Yesterday sixteen barrels., of oil' wero. necured from this well/ This, ho.wever, is not considered its utmost capacity, and deeper boring is to be' proceeded with as eoon as the. gas pressures ease off a little. No; 2 still flows its'usual ten barrels a day, whilst good progress is, being made .with the new- boro No. 1 5.

£510 IN STREET BOXES. Napier, March 27. _ Street collections, in Napier and Hastings on', Saturday in aid of the hospital •realised about .£540, and a number of boxes have still to' come in. • •

n FIRE AT FITZHERBERT. ■ Palmerston, March 27. A house at Fitzhe'rbert East,'owned by Mr. Jesse Hills, of Palmerston, and occupied by Mr. Patchett,'was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fire is supposed to have been started by'some embers from a fire in the yard.' The insurance on the house is not known, but there is a policy of ,£l5O on the furniture.

TO VAVAU FOR THE ECLIPSE. Auckland, March 27. Several members of scientific parties which are proceeding to Vavau to obse'rvo the . solar eclipse on April 28. arriyed by tho Halieno from Sydney. They, leave Auckland to-morrow by' the Atua.