GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2141, 25 July 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. Paul Marie, chef of the Tiffin, and mile Debalmau, a young man cook, i-t engaged, were badly scalded this loining by the explosion of a steam

.-host used for cooking food. The remit of the explosion and screams of ,h_> sufferers brought assistance. They cere attended to and the n removed ;o hospital. Neither man was very seriously hurt. . James Paul Huckstep, a single nan, aged about 40, was found dead, tanging from a tree at Newmarkethis afternoon.

While crossing the Hatiraki Gulf :he Apanui picked up a 22ft yacht painted bluo with all sails and gear stowed away. It is thought she must have broken away from her moorings it or near the Thames. There was no name or number painted on the boat. -

Tlio quarterly statistics of the chools in the Auckland district show here are 476 schools (including 80 half time schools) with 33,527 sclio-. ars, 17,65 S boys and 15.569 girls, taught by 938 teachers. The following are increases over the previous quarter:—Schools 5, teachers 3, sclio!ars 205. The average daily attend’uco has decreased by 280, largely lu© to measles. WELLINGTON, last night. Tlio body of James McEnirney, aged 47, laborer, was found to-day hanging by the neck from a tree in Newtown Park. Deceased had been out of work and in ill health. DUNEDIN, last night. A five-roomed house in Mornington, owned by Robert Sainsbury and occupied by Hugh Hannah, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The occupants went out at 7.15 p.m. yesterday, leaving a fire burning in the kitchen range and had not returned when the outbreak was discovered.-. The bouse was insured for £2OO in the Phoenix Office and was valued at about £350. The fiVniture which was valued at about £175 was insured for £IOO in the Commercial Union Office.