TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10017, 7 December 1908, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Association-.) WELLINGTON. December 7. The Western Maori election resulted as follows:—Kailiu 2377, Eketone 1651, Tukino 1190, To Knbu 732. Ihe Northern and Eastern hgures are incomplete. , The accident to the Arawa happened on November 13, when the steamer was about one-third of the distance from the Gape to Hobart. There was a high sea at the time. A mud was felt, and it was found that the starboard propeller, weighing eleven tons, had dropped off. With the other propeller tne vessel continued to make over nine knots per hour, though the fires were drawn from two boilers which had become useless. Most of the passengers were unaware of the mishap for some time. An examination at Hobart showed that the tail shaft had broken off just inside the stern tube. The vessel only' left the builders in February of last year, and the cause of the fracture is unknown. A new propeller will be made in Wellington and fitted here or in dock at Auckland. The petition for a recount of the Wellington Suburbs local option poll has been withdrawn, the application having been made too late by two days. Such petitions must be sent in seven days after the official declaration. Daniel Leonard, a, driver, was very seriously injured while working on the Queen's wharf this morning through a hardwood telegraph pole freeing itself from its grips and striking him on the neck. The man was taken to the hospital. DUNEDIN. December 7. A welcome and much-needed rain is falling. The Professorial Board nominated MiHector M'Lean, M.A., as the Otago University candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship for the current year. Mr M'Lean took first-class honors in mental science. Professor Gilray will replace Professor Benham on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. The Dunedin North recount will take place on Friday before Mr Widdowson, S.M. At the inquest held on the body of John Major, engine-driver, who committed suicide at Mosgiel railway- station on Saturday,, the evidence showed that deceased Buffered keenly from domestic troubles. On a piece of paper found in deceased's pocket was written : "Good-bye Kllen, I hope God will forgive you as I have forgiven vou. I still love you with all your faults." 1 will end this 'life on arrival at Mosgiel to-day. I am quite safe." Letters setting forth deceased's troubles were addressed to Mr Widdowson, S.M. The jurv returned a verdict of death from a. bullet wound while temporarily insane. Mr Elliott, of Melbourne, has been appointed Engineer to the Taiori Drainage Hoard for three years at a salary of £750. There were 55 aoplicants.

AUCKLAND. December 7. Mr A. T. Scott was found dead at his surgery door at Waipu on Sunday evening. Circumstances point to death "oeihg due to hemorrhage of the lungs. Arrived—Mokoia, from Sydney; Wanaka, from the south; Kamona (at Onehunga). from Plcton, via Kaipara. Sailed—Kmpreza, barque, for Cook Islands. CARTERTON. December 7. A complimentary social will be tendered to Mr Hornsby. late member for Wairarana, on the 9th', and a purse of sovereigns will be presented to him in of his services; also, a special presentation .will be made on behalf of the railwaymen all over the Dominion. , NAPIER. . December 7. Moses Lamont, a driver-, was seriously injured through falling off a dray on ■Saturday night. One wheel of the vehicle went over both legs, which were badly fractured, one in three places. George William Allen, alias Nella, who obtained a sum of money on false pretences by stating that he had come to Napier to start electric trams, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Bethel Joseph Simpson, who pleaded guilty to theft of a cornet, the property of the Dannevirke Band, was . remanded to Dannevirke. A petition, in which lan Simpson seeks to upset the election of G. A. Macdonald as member of the County iQouncil owing to alleged irregularities, isvbeing heard by the Magistrate to-day. Amongst the grounds the oetitioner alleges that the votes of two dead persons were recorded. INVERCARGILL. . December 7. ' A railway fireman named Norman Thomson, aged 23, haa his foot- so severely crushed this morning that, amputation was necessary. Having set'• the.'-points, he jumped on to an engine, but his foot slipped, and 1 a wheel passed, over the ankle, crushing it.