LATEST WIRES.

Northland Age, Volume 25, Issue 15, 6 August 1925, Page 4

LATEST WIRES.

(From our Special Reporter.) AUCKLAND, this day. A man named William Alexander Mc’Cormick, aged 57, ledger keeper for the Auckland Harbour Hoard jumped from Grafton bridge on Wednesday morning death being instantaneous. HEAVY FOG. There was an exceptional heavy fog on the harbour yesterday which greatly interfered with shipping. The ferry steamer Albatross collided with scow Scot and sunk her, Captain Carey and engineer Kendrick being taken aboard the Albatross, which was not seriously damaged. POLITICAL. The House is still debating the Budget, yesterday’s sitting being characterised by a particularly bitter attack on Labour by Mr. Isitt. Mr. Coates states that the new railway tariff is coming into operation this week. MARKET REPORT. Advanced prices for beef were maintained at Westfield fat stock sale yesterday, extra choice ox selling at £2 per 100 lb. Rates for prime young cow heifer beef ranged from £t 13s. to £1 17s. There was a keen demand for sheiep which were yarded in average numbers, extra heavy prime wethers making from £2 7s. to £2 9s.

Pigs were again .yarded in large numbers, porkers selling at improved rates. Choppers sold, from £4 to £4 ss, heavy baeoners realised from £4 2s. to £4 Bs. National week sale at Addington had not many classy entries except show bullocks, but the market was the best since the slump during last 12 months ending June 30. IMMIGRANTS. Total number of immigrants arriving in New Zealand this year is 15>933> three years total being 33,452. SUICIDES. The secretary of the Elthara Co-operative Dairy Coy, Harold Northover, found dead with throat cut in the bathroom of his residence. An open razor was lying nearby. Owing to his nonappearance at the office to-day, a friend and the company’s auditor visited the house which was locked. They gained admittance through a window. Deceased left letters to Company’s directorate and his. wife who, with a young son, are on a holiday visit to Auckland. An elderly man named J. McKenzie, married, with a family, and employed as a clerk committed suicide on a grave at Bromley cemetery yesterday morning by drinking poison.