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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5016, 23 November 1899, Page 2

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WblXilngton, November 22.

Ah Tong was committed for trial for the theft of naturalisation papers. ,In his defence, he said the oase was merely an act of revenge. This was the third time he had been prosecuted by the same party, and every time it was after some case in which he (had been engaged against him.

Particulars of tbe burning of a child at Whiteman's Valley show that the mother left the infant in the house while she went out to drive a cow in. A fire was burning in the kitchen and it is supposed a flake fell out. The house was instantly wrapped in flames. The body was found burnt to a cinder.

Auckland, November 22.

The cutter Ettie White, whioh foiled from Auckland for Samoa a month ago, was picked up in the Bay of Plenty by the steamer Walmana. The crew of two men reported that the c»ptam died when 600 miles from New Zealand. They did not know where they were, and, at their request, the ohief officer of the Waimana was placed on board to bring tbe vessel to Auckland. George McPherson, a blacksmith at Waiuku, accidentally shot himself with a' repeating rifle this morning. Dr. Clonston found that the bullet passed through one long and lodged behind the back rib. MoPnerson was conveyed to the hospital.

The decision of Mr Brabant, S.M., in the ketch Envy inquiry stated that the captain's oonduot was praiseworthy and seamanlike, and that there was no evidence to show that the Envy left Wellington in an unßeaworthy state or with her deck houses unfeafe. On the contrary, the evidence of Captain Clayton, Lloyds surveyor, together with the faot that the vessel was seven days exposed to an exceptionally heavy gale,, proved her to be Beaworthy. No blame whatever was-attributable to the master.

Wxllington, November 28.

The University examination papers are too bnlky to send Home by the 'Frisco mail, and, as the Wakanui is a slow boat, will probably be kept back for the Gothic. Since the Mataura disaster the papers are Bent as mail matter, and not as oargo.