TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10011, 30 November 1908, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON". November 29. A man named Michael Moriarty fell while getting off a tramcar lute iast night. was badly wounded in the head. His shoulders were bruised, and lie received a- severe shock to the system. He is in a serious condition to-day. John Butler was retried at the Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Anton Larsen. The jury again failed to agree. The Crown Prosecutor will state to-morrow what course it is proposed to adopt. _ . Lieutenant 'Knox, R.N., who is de.ivrring addresses in New Zealand in support oMhe British Navy League, left ton for Christchurch on Saturday night. He is booked for several meetings in tinSouth, and hopes later on that meetings may be arranged at Nelson, Blenheim, New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Masterton. . , Operations are in progress ior the refloating the Union Company's steamer Hawea, which is ashore at- Greymouth. A large quantity of timber wluch is 011 the vessel will be salvaged. The remainder of the boys for Union Company's training ship Hartford will join her to-morrow, and she will go to Ivaipara on Thursday to load timber for an Australian port.

duxedix. November- 29. The cricket matches were continued yesterday in showery weather. Shortly before 5 o'clock ;i. steady rain set in, and put a stop to play. Carisbrook B met Opoho, and made 112 for 4 wickets (Austin 54). Grange, playing a-gauist Cansbrook A. compiled 85 for 2 wickets 44). Albion met- ]>itmdiii, and lost 7 wickets for 120. The third annual Hospital Saturday collection was taken tip yesterday. The weather was .beautifully fine in the mornin"*, but became showery in the afternoon, a, Steady rain setting in Hater, and continuing until well on in the evening. In previous years the collectors confined their efforts to the eitv and suburbs, but this vear the movement was extended to the countrv districts, extending as lar as Palnier.<tJu (41 miles) and south to Milton <56 miles) and in Otago Central to Middlemarch (47 miles). The returns are not quite complete, but the collection so tar amounts to £llsO, an increase of £550 on last, vears figures. It- is estimated that but for the rain another £l5O would have been collected. The money will go to provide medical aud other comforts for the patients in the Dmiedin Hospital and benevolent institutions and to maintain, improve, and develop the St. John Ambulance Association, the Patients' ami Prisoners* Aid Society. Victoria .Jubilee Convalescent Fund, and the Karitane Home.

CM RI.STCI I I'llCl 1. November 28. The New Zealand Shipping Companv are in receipt of the following cable from their London agent: "The Tongariro is at Dover. She has been in collision with the Drumlanrig." The- Tongariro is seriously damaged, and must return to London." Nobody was injured. The Tongariro left London on Thursday for Plymouth, and was to have left Plymouth today for Wellington. DARGAVILLE. November 28. Thomas Kelly was arrested this morning on a charge of attempting to murder Captain Mewitt- on- board the Naumai. Accused shot him in the- back with a small revolver. The bullet has not yet been removed, but- the wound is not considered serious. HOKITIKA. November 29. Grave fears are entertained for the safety of Frederick Boyes, a well-known ti-uire' in mining circles, until lately mining manager of the W heel of Fortune claim at Stafford, lie left- home on Wednesday morning early, and was seen taking to "the bush near Humphrey's Gully, where his bicycle was subsequently found. Footprints. supposed to be his, were discovered on the bridle track leading to Wilberforee reefs. Though search parties have been out ever since no trace of the missing man can be found. A coach, the property of Charles lee, coming down Rinui Hill towards the town, capsized owing to the horses getting unmanageable. Several passengers- had nar row escapes, but Tee himself was injured, the wheel of the coach going over his body. IX V ER-CA RGILL. November 29. The body of a newly-born infant was found bv a" farm hand at Saturday mornins; lying by the side of the main road between Wrey s Bush and Winton. . At an inquest to-day evidence showed positively that the child had breathed, and that*it had sustained ante-mortem laceration at the back of the skull and a- broken jaw. The verdict was wilful murder by some person or persons unknown.

BLUFF. November 30. Arrived —Moeraki, from Melbourne.