TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, 23 July 1907, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND WHARVES DAMAGED. Auckland, July 22. The gale on Sunday caused extensive damage to portions of the new ferro-concrete railway wharf. # The part affected most is the training wall fiheatihed piles, which extend the whole length of the wbart hi the purpose of turning the tide and making still water inside. About a dozen bays in the middle of the wall hive been torn out almost 10mpletely, a .few isolated plated bes»g Visible here and there, with jagged ends of the steel reinforce oient sucking out of the top. A huavy up girder has also gone. la the »•:«>'*> with the exception of some small portions hanging to the tops of isolated piles, the steel bars forming the reinforcement stretching is bent and stripped of concrete across the intervening space. Passing further out towards the end of the wharf, the wall still stands, though daylight can be seen glimmering between the piles in several places. Coming to the place where work is now progressing, the ravages of the storm are at once more apparent. THE LOCKER SYSTEM. Oamaru, July 22. At the Magistrate's Court this morning the Magistrate gave his reserved decision in the case Police v. White, a charge of selling liquor. After reviewing the evidence placed before him, the Magistrate delivered the following verdict:— "l am of opinion that the locker system has been resorted to as a blind or shelter behind which I believe the law would be broken with impunity and I convict defendant of the charge on which he is arraigned and fine him £50, with costs £6 195." Defendant's solicitor gave notice of appeal and sureties were fixed at £70. A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Dunedin, July 22. At an inquest on an infant, Eileen Barton, seven weeks old. medical evidence was tendered to the effect that the child had been overlaid by her mother in some way. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. The coroner remarked on the very dangerous practice of mothers taking babies into their own beds. MOKOIA AGROUND. Auckland, July 22. While coming alongside the western berth of the Hobson street wharf this morning the steamer. Mokoia from Sydney got aground. The water was deeper at the outer end, and the after part of the stfeanier was brought in sufficiently close to the wharf to enable the passeoaers to go ashore by means or a gangway. The bow of the steamer was then several yards out from the wharf. -After about." hotfr the steamer was brought within six feet of the wharf and made fast. The tide was low when the Mokoia, drawing about 21ft, took the ground. SCORCHING PROHIBITED. Christchurch, July 22. In view of the recent police prosecutions against competitors in cycle ( road races, the Dunlop Tyre Company have decided to abandon their annual Timaru.to Christchurch Road RaC6 THE FLORA FATALITY. Auckland, July 22. One of the crew of the sunken cutter Flora was heard crying out in the water off North Head for assistance shortly after the cutter foundered. On Saturday the fishing boat Kestrel was sailing up from Mercury Bay, and when off North Head at 3.30 a.m. one of her orew named Morrison heard someone calling in the water. He roused his mate, Norman, and the boat was put up into the wind. Just before that Morrison had observed a figure floating by, evidently hanging on to some object afloat. The drowning man called out seven or eight times, but was evidently nearly exhausted. The crew of the Kestrel searched for over an hour, but no sign of the man in distress was seen again. The spot where he was passed by the Kestrel was but 60 yards from the shore.