LATEST TELEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7929, 12 October 1911, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS

PRESS ASSOCIATION. HOUSE BURNED AT HASTINGS. HASTINGS, October 11. A fire-roomed bouse on. Gordon road, owned and occupied by Harry Hiebey,. was totally destroyed by fire this altorn-oon, wbilo the occvip;'.uts were at tbo Napier Park ra-ces, Tt is thought that the fire originated through a defect in the chimney caused, by tho recent earthquake, MORE EARTHQUAKES. ‘ WAIHOA, October 11. Thro© earthquakes wore experienced, here yesterday. One, at 7.55. was fairly heavy. ADDINGTON RAILWAY WORKSHOPS CIIEISTCHXJIICH, October 11. , ‘ Tho Addington railway workshops are turning out torty fruit waggons for use mainly in Otago and SbuthJand during the present fruit season. There will also be turned out of tho workshops soon another •‘B‘‘ locomotive, and work Is in hand in connection with tho scheme to lit secondclass railway carriages with the old cross seats used in first-class carriages. CHRISTCHURCH ANTI-MILITARISTS. OHIUSTCHTJEPH, October 11. At a meeting of tho Christchurch AntiMilitarist League, arrangements wore mad© for the distribution of peace and antimilitarifit Literature in tho city electorates. Tho following motion was unanimously carried:—“That this meeting tenders its motrt emphatic protest against the scandalous admissions of the defence authorities concerning the prosecution of thoeo who had not registered under the Defence Act, wherein it is intended to prosecute only in special cases, and is of opinion that each conduct is a deliberate prostitution of the people's ideals of equity and justice."

IDEA OF RAILWAY STRIKE SCOUTED. CHEISTCHUECH, October 11. Eailwaymen in Christchurch, interviewed on the subject o£ a probable strike of railway employees, scout the idea, and state that they had not heard even a suggestion of such an improbable and preposterous idea. A CHARGE OF BIGAMY. CHKISTCHUECH, October 11, Grace Annie HcTaggart pleaded guilty at the Macfetrate’s Coart to-day to a charge of bigamy. She was flxst married in' 1886, hut her husband lelt her. and she did not hear from him for thirteen years, and considered that she had a perfect right to marry Charles Ashby in 1906. She was committed for sentence to tho Supremo Court, and hail was allowed. FATAL SPARRING. GKETiIOGTH, October 11. Yesterday afternoon Jerry Clicefe, a well-known joobey, about twenty-four years of ago. dropped dead while indulging in a friendlv spar with a companion at tie racecourse. To-day a post mortem was hold, and an inquest win be held tomorrow. It is understood that syncope was tile cause of death, Tho deceased's parents are said to reside in Oainaru. A SWAGGER’S DEATH. DtJXKDI.i, October 11. A middle-used man, wuosc name la supposed to be Jonathan ilcilvoy, was taken to tli" Saseby hospital in an exhausted condition, and died before ae could receive medical attention. Tire deceased, who is said to have boa a drinking heavily ol late, was a recent arrival in the district, - and was going to Kyeb-urn station ynsterday sooking work. lie was then under the influence of liquor, and must have, beer, out all nlght.