GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1902, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[>REBS ASSOCIATION.! WAIPAWA, 15th November. A violent earthquake was felt here at 2.15 p.m. td-day. WAIPAWA, This Day. Steady soaking rain fell yesterday afternoon and last night, whicb will do incalculable good, "as vegetation throughout the district had been parched by the recent gales. ■ ' CHRISTCHURCH, 15fch November. A man named Bates, an ex-publican, was arrested to-day for discharging a revolver at another man a\ ith intent to do grievous bodily harm. DUNEDIN, This Day. Captain Stevens, Deputy Harbourmaster, who had been in failing health for some time, died this morning. WAIROA, This Day. Miss Mary H. Holder, daughter of Mr. H. R. Holder, a sheepfarmer, at Woodville, who resided with her brother-in-law, Mr. 0. Roberts, was this morning found in the river in shallow water. fc>he was carried out by Mr. Roberts and another, and a doctor was summoned, but life was extinct. GISBORNE, This Day. The schooner Gisborne, which has arrived here from Mercury Bay, reports that two men, named Walter Valiner and Turakina Charlie, have been missing since 9th November. They went fishing oq that day, and failed to return. AUCKLAND, This Day. The shop of Mr. Searl, bootmaker, at Paeroa, was entered early on Sunday. Two windows were smashed, and £15 worth of boots weie stolen. Several boots were found floating in the s river on Sunday morning. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The Musgrove Comic Opera Company will give a matinee on Wednesday in aid of the Elingamite.