POINTS FROM THE NEWS

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1936, Page 6

POINTS FROM THE NEWS

; death has occurred at Devonport of ’Mr Timothy Beeham O’Connor, a member of the pioneer All Black team, which toured New South Wales in 1884. JJOPE of finding the fishing launch Mokau, which left New Plymouth five days ago with the owner and his son on board, has been abandoned after an extensive search by sea and air. 'JPHE death occurred yesterday afternoon of Mr E. C. Browne, Auckland business man, who received injuries in a motor smash on Monday night. -T'HE week-end storm resulted in the death of eight people, while three are missing. Four were drowned and two died as a result of exposure, and two by blows. The body of the secI end man missing at Mangatangi, was recovered yesterday. r pHE steamer John, which was driven ashore 'on the railway embankment at Kaiwarra, Wellington, during Sunday’s storm, was refloated by the combined efforts of the tugs Tbia and Uta, and her own engines. F is announced that the All Blacks will arrive at Auckland on February 16, and not February 17, as previously expected. A N adjourned inquest into the death of an unidentified man whose skeleton was found in thi grounds of the public hospital at Hamilton on November 20, was concludec yesterday. The coroner returned i verdict that deceased had been fount dead, there being no mark to indicate the cause of death, and no evidence of identification. N° finality was reached at the meeting yesterday of the disputes committee, in connection with the mining dispute in the Huntly district. When interviewed last evening Mr I. Hutchinson, president of the Northern Miners’ Union, said he had no statement to make, except that the proposals brought before the meeting would be outlined to the miners’ ex-

ecutive, and that it would rest with the miners to accept or reject them. It was impossible to say when the decision would be made, but work would continue in the mines in the meantime. » rpHERE was a meeting of the Dairy Board yesterday, when consideration was given to the views of the Government on problems associated with the marketing of dairy produce recently conveyed to the j board. No statement was made by the board, after yesterday morning’s meeting. Under the direction of the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, a committee has been set up, with an office in Parliament Building, to carry out investigations into the price fixation scheme of the Government for primary produce, and the method by which such a scheme can be put into operation. A n inquest was jheld at Wellington yesterday into the death of Robert Witheford, superintendent of j the National Provident Fund and ReI gistrar of Friendly Societies, whose ! body was found at the bottom of a J lift well in the Farmers’ Institute I Building on the night of January 15, after he had been missing since the lunch hour the previous day. Deceased must have stepped into space and fallen to the bottom and have been killed. The coroner returned a verdict that the deceased died from injuries so received. JhJAVING been stored in the dressing ’ rooms in the grandstand overnight. when there was a heavy downpour of rain, the playing clothes of members of both the M.C.C. team and the Manawatu side were found this morning to be drenched with water. As an act of courtesy to the visitors it was decided that there would be no play before 2 p.m. yesterday. A storm accompanied by violent thunder during; most of the night, saturated the playing area. It was announced later that the M.C.C. team was unable to continue the game, and the match was abandoned. in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday with the theft of tin valued at £IOOO from the Railway Department stores, Charles Bold, 44, storeman, was com-

mitted to the Supreme Court for sentence

J)ENNILESS in Sydney after an unsuccessful trip from New Zealand in search of employment, Frederick Samuel Pilcher, aged 29. a butcher, stowed away on the Monowai. The story was told by Senior-Sergeant O’Neill in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when Pilcher was charged with secreting himself on the Mcnowai without authority. Pilcher pleaded guilty, and was fined £7 10/-.

A RARE bird was discovered on the shores of Lake Taupo during the height of the storm on Sunday. The bird has a long scarlet beak, 4 inches long, a single red tail, with a feather almost 2ft in length and a curly pink plumage. It was brought to Napier and placed in Cornwall Park, Hastings, pending official inquiries. Apparently it is a tropical bird. It is thought possible it might be what is known as a bosun bird. It is comparatively tame, and it is thought it might have escaped from some zoological gardens in the Dominion.