TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
1 Per Press Association. WAIPAWA, March 19. Steady rain fell throughout tho night and continues. AUCKLAND, March 19. A boy of 16, named Duncan R. Calderwood, who admitted an extraordinary series of thefts in different parts of the colony, was sentenced at the Police Court to-day to three months' imprisonment. Ho will be sent back to the Burnham Industrial School. A visitor to Auckland states that the boiling cauldron on Mt. Tongariro was in violent eruption last Friday. He saw a largo column of steam several thousand feet high issue from the cauldron. The Marine Department has decided to hold a Magisterial inquiry into the collision between the steamer Wairuna and the scow Moonah, by which one of tho latter's crew lost his life. ■ ASHBURTON, March 19. Heavy rain fell throughout the night, and it is still continuing. For the 12 hours ending 9 o'clock this morning, 1.19 inches were registered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8538, 19 March 1908, Page 8
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153TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8538, 19 March 1908, Page 8
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