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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10657, 10 July 1897, Page 3

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(PER UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Friday, Alfred Adams, alias A. T. F. Pie roe, haß been committed for trial on a obarge of forgery and obtaining goods on false pretences, John Rose, an old ibbu between 60 and 70, was killed by falling otf a dray Ac was drlvloß on the Oaehnnga road, It In now stated that only two pereooß are misting from the auxllllary boat Mavis, Captain Johnston and yonng J, T. Gary, lately from America, one of tbe United Brotherhood party by the Ameitoan brlgontlne Freed Edward, which arrived at Fiji lately from Sin FranclsM; and who left cbe vessel nt Fiji and came on to Ancfcland. ti Wellington, Friday. A four-roomed house in Haloingstreet, oooupled as a Chinese boardinghouse and reatanrant, was barned early this mornlDg, One of the inmates, Chow LI, a gardener, was bidly burned all over the body, the Hash being barned from his hands, legs, and feet. Be was taken to the hoapltml, and died at 10 am. Joe Fill, keeper of the honse, was Injured by jumping from a window. Latek. The Naval and Military Claims Commission has finished its iiqnlry In Wellington, and will sit at Wooavlile. The Trades Connoll considers that the Government should look Into Mr flooley'e proposals, at they are not to the advent age of the prodaoaia or workers of tho oolony, Both the local papers nnlta In condemning the doßtrnctlon of the ehrnbi on Thorndon Esplanade, wbloh has now been completed despite all protests. Id was apparently done by order of the City Connctl, and the trees sacrificed are all native plants ; tome of them, karakas, wero epeolully planted because they resist sea spray well. Christchurch, Friday, At an inquest on Mrs Richardson (widow of the Rev. J. B, RlohardEOn, lost in tbe Tararua) who was found drowned in the river Avon last nlgbt a verdlot of sntcile while temporarily insane was returned, She had baen la a melancholy and depraved state lately. TniARU. Friday, A farmer named Thomas M'Kle, near Filrllp, Wis fonnd dead last clphb from a gunthob wound. £la was oat after haies, nnd the gna evidently went off on being; dragged through a wire fence. Dunedin, Friday, Tbere was a larger orowd than Usual at the University thli evening on the oo« cation ot the " oapplog " oeremony. Mr E. B. Carglll, vloe-Chaoßellor, presided. The graduates numbered 30; six M.A.'s (one being a lady), 14 B.A.'b (one lad;), two B.Sc, two IL B.s (one lady), and two M 8., B.Ch.'j (one lady). ISVERCARGILL, Friday. The following cable was forwarded by the Southland Frozen Meat Company on the sbh instant to the Premier in London : — -" Shipping companies have greatly le duoed freights on frozen meat ; hope you will do likewise on railway freight; anxious for reply by oable." No reply ba> yet been teoelved, Two sawmill hands were bronght from Stewart Island to tbo hospital today i badly injured. They were trollylng logs, and on oomiog down an lnollne the trolly got beyond control and captlead the loads upon the meo. Lowker bad a* foot crashed and his face iojared, and Goodall a thigh fractured,