GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1907, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

1 ♦ Inns association.! AUCKLAND, This Day. The work of refloating the barque Waiiti, which was driven ashore and capseized at Mangawhare (Northern Dargaville) the other day, is to be commenced forthwith. The cost of refloating is estimated at about £1000. Iwo Devonport residents — Henry Parker and James Henry Symons — had a narrow escape from drowning on Saturday, through a small yacht they were in capsizing off Brown's Island in a sudden squall. After being in the water for over two hours, they were picked up in I a thoroughly exhausted condition. ' O AMARU, This Day. John- Findlay, who was recently acquit- i ted! on a charge of murdering Alexander Hay Rennie, was on Saturday committed for trial to the BnpKms Court for turgiary ana theft from the dwelling of the schoolmaster. GISBORNE, This Day. Neither the schooner Awanui nor th£ scow Wakanini suffered damage to hull in the collision off Tolaga Bay. caused through the vessels drifting together in a dead calm. The Awarrai had her bowsprit) smashed. WAIHI, This Day. The midday train was stuck up in Katangahape tunnel on Saturday for an • hour. Several attempts were made by the driver to scale the up grade, but in Vain. The train Lad to be backed twice, and the cargo lightened, the third attempt proving successful. The passengers suffered considerably from heat and smoke, some being in fear of suffocation.