NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15201, 15 January 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A ninb-tear-oi-o child named Mary Whittle, while playing on a swing yesterday afternoon, fell'and broke her arm. She is now an inmate of the hospital. The man J. Conway, who disappeared from his " boardwghouse in Basque Road, r Eden terrace, ron New Year's Day, has written ■to his landlady from Waiwera. . A conference of boot manufacturers sat ; in : Christchurch yesterday to consider the ' tariff proposals for submission Sto a;.; conference called by the Minister for Customs. Several transfers, are announced in the ' ■. local police force.' Constables J. Courtney and Bruce Thompson are to go to One- ' hunga, and Constable R. H. Moss is to be. stationed at Otahuha. :; ;■:■.-. The question :of bringing the City Mis- , sion under the jurisdiction of the Auck- '<'■ land Presbytery was ~ Mentioned, at a meeting of the presbytery last night. It was decided to defer consideration of the matter for two months. The completion of I the new Auckland- : Sydney cable was celebrated yesterday by a* luncheon given by the Pacific Cable Board to a number of Auckland citizens ;.' and other * representative men, among . whom was the Postmaster-General. , The commission appointed to inquire into the death of Laura Elizabeth Cham- . berlain at St. ' Helens Home, and into the administration of the home generally, took : evidence yesterday. The commission will :-it again at ten o clock this morning. At an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mary B. Tool, found dead in a.bath at Flynn's Hotel, -Hastings, medical evidence showed that :', deceased was suffering from gastric catarrh and fatty degeneration of the heart, to which death was s attributed. A verdict ,was returned accordingly. ; ; :<- A four-roomed . house and ' contents, owned by Rangi Kerehoma, and occupied by Frank Boyle, was destroyed by fire at Masterton last night. The furniture was insured for £100 with the Australian Alliance Company. The insurance on the house was not "known.—(Press Association.) '" ( ' :\: '" ' • :' '

A man named H. J. Richards was arrested on board the steamer Maunganui at, the Bluff on Monday,; charged with forging a cheque for £5 on a firm of solicitors, at Martinborough. At the Court in Invercargill yesterday, Richards was Temaiidpd to appear at Martinborough on the 22nd inst (says at Press Association message.) ' - " ! ?>