EXTRA EDITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 6

EXTRA EDITION.

LATE TELEGRAMS. THE RECENT STORM. rPBESS ASSOCIATION.! WAIROA, This Day. News from the country distrirts states that all the bridges on the Waikare-moana-ioad, between Frascrtown and Ohuku, have gone or are badly damaged. The bath-houses at Morere Hot Springs were carried away, and Bellerby's private hotel (late Cooper's), built two years ago, was undermined by tho river, and is hanging to the centre I blocks only. A large vessel, like a Union Com- j pany's boat, sheltered yesterday between Kinikini and Long Point. To- j wards evening the steamer was past Long Point ; then she came back to Waikokopu, whistled, and steamed away. It is not known what the vessel is ; no signals were seen. [It is probable that the steamer referred to in the above message is a collier. The Navua, which arrived here yesterday from Auckland, reported having- sighted a large collier in the same vicinity. By this time the unidentified boat has probably resumed her journey.] AN INQUEST. GISB*ORNE, This Day. At an inquest touching the death of George Alfred O'Connor, foreman at the municipal sanitary works, who was drowned in the Waikanae Creek on Thursday night, and whose body was found cling to a pile of a narrow footbridge, a verdict of Found Drowned was returned. The man probably slipped or was blown off the bridge. AUCKLAND COMPETITION SOCIETY. DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. W. Paget Gale, of Dunedin, has been apDointed adjudicator of vocal and instrumental music for the Auckland Competition Society. MAORI ADDRESS TO THE KING. BLENHEIM, This Day. Maoris residing in > the Wairau have decided to prepent an address and souvenir to the Kins, and have asked Mr. John Holmes, late Royal Commissioner, to make the presentation on his return to England.