LATE TELEGRAMS.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 7, 18 September 1906, Page 4

LATE TELEGRAMS.

To-day’s Passengers. OPUA, To-day. The following are the passengers from Auckland by to-day’s Clansman :—For Mangonui; Miss Kirby; Messrs. White, Gillibrand, McGlashan, and Topi. For Whangaroa: Mesdames Willett and Gribble; Misses Minnett, Lane, and Gribble; Messrs. McQuillan, Willetts, Gribble (4), Renton, Tonkin, Beale, and Stevens. Destructive Fire in Auckland. House and Contents Destroyed. AUCKLAND, Monday. A destructive fire occurred in Greystreet at nine o’clock on Saturday in an eight-roomed housej occupied by Mr. C. F. Maher and (family. The house was badly damaged and the oontenta completely destroyed. An old married couple named Cooke had a narrow escape from being burnt to death. ———

i A Betting Case. Man Heavily Fined. d ( WELLINGTON, To-day. Magistrate Riddell gave judgment in > the case of William Scott, who was , charged with betting on totalisator odds at Riccarton, and he was fined £ls, with £2 10/- on each of otw other charges. i A Dynamite Explosion. k i Three Maoris Injured. » ! GISBORNE, Saturday. Three Maoris were injured by an explosion of dynamite at Jhungia, Waiapu ' district. They were not seriously hurt. t > Tram-car Accident. One Man Injured. 3 AUCKLAND, Saturday. j Manukau Road, near Owen’s Road, was * the scene of a violent tram-car collision r dui'ing the return rush of traffic, lietweon 7 two combination cars, both bound to 8 town. One car, No. 42, stopped at Owen’s Road, and wHlst standing No. 12, a high speed car, smashed into No. 42, with the result that one man was ini jured but not seriously. The passengers 1 in front of the moving car state that the t motorman did eveiyfcb’ng possible to - avert the accident, stick'ng to his post r until the col’ision occurred and working , the brakes rapidly, but despite his efforts s the car refused to slacken speed. a The Ayreshire Accident. I One of the Victims Succumb. e AUCKLAND, Monday. r Captain Roland Stre&ter, who was ine jured with two others through the cole lapse of a deiuck on the steamer Ayreshire a month ago, died on Saturday eveirng. His spine was injured, oausing r paralysis. At the iuquest a verdict of t accidental death was returned, i a A Determined Suicide. I, 4 Throws Himself off Wharf. Body not Yet Recovered. i AUCKLAND, To-day. Late on Sunday evening Gordon t Handeock, an engine cleaner, while pro- ’ ceeding to work, discovered an overcoat B hanging on the rail at the waterfront in . Quay-street with two notes pinned to it. 1 After read : ng the notes he reported to the police. The first note appears carefully written, hut is not signed. It reads “I, a lad, Edward Deeiiug, o drowned myself over this wharf this s right. I have reason to do it, bes cause some person has been 1 dining e my name and 1 onuing me down to ■ the lowest. lam twenty years of age and a member of the Auckland t Central Mission. If anyone wishes k to know why I have done this they f will find full particulars from Miss a -, of street, Auckland. e My wish is that my mother Bhould >. know; Miss has her address.” Theseconduoteappears hastily scrawled B and reads : r |. “Drowned myself because I am li iick of life. Good-bye Mission friends. They have got rid of me, g now they can talk.” •1 The lady referred to is about seventeen s years of age, and stated to a “Star” S’ representative that she had been keeping company with Deering, but her people objected on acoount of rumours regarding his behaviour. They both attended the s Mission 2nd she taxed him with it, to which he replied that is was all a pack of s lies. Deeriug received a telegram three t weeks ago stating that his sister was - dead. His father suicided and ever sinoe ■j he had appealed depressed. They had s had no quarrel and parted friends. The search for the body proved unb successful, e e ’ Destructive Fire. Two Hotels Destroyed. ' PAEROA, September 17. Crosby’s hotel, Karangahake, was destroyed by fire last (Saturday) night, and ’ the Volunteer Hall, known as the Truin--1 way hotel, was also destroyed. t Fire at New Plymouth. Hotel and Shops Burnt Down, NEW PLYMOUTH, To-day. A fire lias destroyed the Waitara Hotel, Dugdale’s shop, and Samson’s billiard room. The Stamp Duty, A Napier Case. NAPIER, To-day. | An interesting point concerning the stamp duty came before the court, when [ Mr. W. M. Newman was charged with failing to stamp a duplicate receipt. The Inspector of Police stated that he had no reason to doubt that the original document was stamped, but the Department considered that the duplicates also required stamping. Defendant withdrew the plea of guilty and entered one of not guilty to enable the magistrate to go into the question thoroughly. The Ngatiawa. The N.S.S. Company’s New Steamer. AUCKLAND, To-day. Thi Northern 8.8. Company's new •tawner. Ngatiawa, arrived in Auckland on Saturday evening from Glasgow.