TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9478, 4 February 1907, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Prkss Association.) WELLINGTON. February 2. A rear ago the Wellington Education Hoard decided to allow a systematic examination of the teeth of the children in the liigher standards of some of the, city schools. The report of the examining dentists has been prepared. It shows that the teeth of 1148 children were examined. It was found that children had 5887 teeth in bad order, an average of over live per head. CIIItLSTCHIKCH. February 2. A special meeting of the Canterbury Cricket Association was held to-night with regard to the trouble ihal has occurred between Callaway, the well-known bowler, and the committee of the Association. Callaway failed to play for Canterbury in the match with Wellington, and the committee of the Association at a meeting on Tuesday night, after hearing read an explanation from him, resolved that the lion, secretary of the Association should be instructed to omit Callaway's name from the list of representative plavers available for the New Zealand matches against, the Marylebone Cricket Club team when forwarding the same to the New Zealand Cricket Council. This evening the following motion was carried : "That in view of Mr Callaway's publishing a letter written by himself to the Canterbury Cricket Association containing offensive and misleading statements, this committee suspend Mr Callaway from taking part in any cricket under the jurisdiction of the Canterbury Cricket Association till he sec* tit to publicly withdraw lus letter." AUCKLAND. February 2. The work of Te-floating iho barque Waiiti, which was driven ashore and ca]*>ized at Mangawhare, Northern Dargaviile. tlie other day, is to be commenced forthwith. The cost of re-floating is estimated at about £IOOO. Two Devonport residents (Henry Parker and James Henry Symons) bad a narrow escape from drowning yesterday through a small yacht they were in capsizing off Brown's Island in a sudden squall. After being in the water for two hours, one supported by a small batch and the other hanging to the peak of the mainsail, Parker was pick«l up by the Devonport ferry boat going to Motuihi, and Symons (who had drifted some distance on the hatch) by tlie Northern Company's Wakatcre on her way to tlie Thames, lioth men were thoroughly exhausted, and could not- have lasted much longer. An inquest was held to-day touching the death of Michael Kite, a. handcart man. who succumbed to injuries alleged by him in his dying dispositions to have been inflicted by an Austrian named Pecar while deceased was on liis way home the other night. The medical evidence went to show that death was due to rupture of a gastric ulcer, deceased having suffered from genera! peritonitis. The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes. TinAustrian said to have assaulted deceased was, it will be remembered, arrested on a charge of assault. CARTERTON. February 2. A young man named Wiiiiam Harriion was leading a team attached to a stTawladen wagon past a traction engine when, the horses shied and Harrison was knocked down. The wheels of the wagon passed over his body. He was n-movvd to the hospital, suffering from a fractured pelvis and from internal injuries. WANGANO. February 2. Tho Ixxly of Charles Wixcey, who was drowned while bathing at Oastlecliff on Sunday afternoon last, was found this morning on the beach about a chain from where he disappeared. An inquest was held this afternoon, and a verdict of accidental drowning was returned.