TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 293, 17 June 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PSBBB ASSOCIATION.] Dargaville, Juno 17. The launch Lily ran into the bows of the Bteamer Baroona, the occupants, three men and a boy, being thrown out. The men were rescued ly means of ropes, but the boy was nearly drowned. A sailor named Sydney Rowan jumped in and held him up till a boat camo to pick them up. , , ,_ Whangarei, June 17. Rawnsley's stables at Poroti, ten miles from Wlungarei, were totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night, fivo valuable draught horses being incinerated. A rumour is generally current that a man was burned to death, but the individual in question is said to have been seen at Tangiteoria late on Saturday. The building was insured for £30. and the estimated total loss is £360. Nelson, June .16. At 12.30 this morning a party of eight Maoris left the Croixelles in an oil launch for Nelson to attend Uie Land Court sittings there. Their launch was in oharge of one of their number named Mohane. After proceeding about half a mile on their journey, a leak in the engine was discovered. A lantern was used to examine the engine and a fire occurred. Mohane and several others jumped overboard, and though the launch was only three chains from the land, one man, a woman and a boy were drowned, 'lhe present available information does not give the names of those who lost their lives. Pahiatua, June 17. The Ballance Co-operative Dairy Co. paid out on Saturday upwards of £2500 for milk supplied during May, being a record payment for the Company for that month. The average test for the month was 4.7. Dunedin, June 17. It is understood that the Land Purohase Board has promised te favourably consider tlie propoaal of the acSuisition of two thousand acres of he Mount Royal Estate. The ground proposed to be acquired adjoins the town of Palmerston South. Gisborne, June 17. During the Anglican Jubilee celebrations last week, the sum of £684 was collected towards the fund fpr building a new churoh at Gisborne. T. A. Coleman, secretary of the East Coast Native Trust Board, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr Harding as Commissioner. Whangarei, June 17. The Kameri picked up a capsized canoe with sails set. The words "J. L. Buchanan, Lake Takapawa," were in pencil on the boarding.