TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 822, 8 March 1909, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] THEFT AT SEA. Gisborne. March 8. .J;iiue.-s Garrity, convicted on his third trial on a charge of theft from :he person of a saloon passenger aboard the. steamer Manuka on the passage from Napier to Gisborne, was sentenced to efghteen' months' imprisonment. NEARLY GAOLED. Dunedin, March 6. For attempting to obtain £5 3s by meaas of altering totalizator ticket figures, to make Uiem serve tor a later race —a common practice —at the Wel_ liny ton meeting, Chas John Mclnfco.sli, a. storekeeper at Alexandra, was lined £6". His previous good character saved him from gaol. £1300 FOR LONDON'S POOR. .Mr lireen, secretary of the Trades Hall, has cabled another £600 to London in connection with the Bread Fund, making a total of £1300 from Dunedin to date. BURNED TO DEATH. Napier, March 7. A negro named Martin Pellor, em. ployed as a cook on tho Hon. J. D. Ormond's Jiaramu station, was so badly burnt through the place in which he slept catching fire on Saturday night that he died while being taken to Hastings. The building was not much damaged. It is supposed that Pellor accidently set fire to the place on retiring. TWO MORE DROWNING ACCIDENTS. Duuediu, March 7. A drowning accident occurred at Tomahawk yesterday, the victim being Alex. Maxwell, registrar of electors. Deceased and a brother aged 21 years, went for a bathe and almost immediately afterwards the deceased was seen a considerable distance out in the surf. He suddenly disappeared, and was seen no more. Deceased was a good swimmer. The body has not been recovered. Napier, March 7. A boy of eight years, named Maurice Edward Hughes, was drowned in the surf near the southern end of the Marine Parade on Saturday afternoon. There was a heavy sea and £Ke boy was caught by the backwash. INFANT'S BODY FOUND. Christchnrch, March 6. The body of a newly-born infant was found in the river near the Barbadoes Street Cemetery this afternoon. It appears that some boys were playing on the river bank and had a dog with them. The dog was truing into the water after sticks and when he returned on one occasion ho brought the body with him. The body appears as though it had been in the water for some time.