TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 8 March 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

VXB. PBBBB MWOCIiTION. A SAD FATALITY, - Hastings, March 8. Perie Carpenter, used 17; years, ot Grant road, Wellington, who was visiting friends at Hastings, was killed instantly yesterday afternoon, She and her cousin. Minn Carpenter, double-banked a horse, which bucked and threw both girls, Perie landed on her head and broke her neck, Ihe other girl escaped with a badlybruised hip, BURNED TO DEATi;. Hamilton, March S. Thomas Crossley, aged 43 years a widower, a native of Dewsbniy, Yorkshire, was burned to death at Kawbia. He had been drinking on Saturday night and was placed m a chaff'shed. His charred remains were found yesterday among tbe embers oi the shed, which took fire during the njgbt. 'A FIRE AND A SENSATION. Auckland. March S. A private hotel, th-e Towers, in Newmarket, of 2-5 rooms, was partially destroyed by fire on Saturday night. One wing of the houso was gutted. The Newmarket fire brigade's reel capsimj when rounding a corner, and two of the men ivere sightly' injured. The. others proceeded to the fire without' then; appliances. Tlie city "brigade assisted'to extinguish the fire. Tbe building'Avas owned by N. Nielsen.

A Press Association message from Christchurch' states that local' advice received states that the Reunion! left Rio de"Janeiro on March 5 for London.