LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 29 July 1907, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Tlie Auckland .hockey representatives played a liockey team from the newlyformed Goldfields Union. Auckland won by 9 goals to nil. MASTERTON, last night. At the annual meeliny of the Meterton A. and P. Association on Saturday, Mr J. D. Cruickshank was elected president for the ensuing year. A motion was carried that members' and ladies' tickets be withheld from all members whose subscriptions for the current year are not paid. The profit last year amounted to £100. WELLINGTON, this day. The Wellington detectives yesterday appreliended four men' on suspicion of being the perpetrators of recent robberies, including jewellery and money of the value oif £100, from the residence of Mr Gerald Fitzgerald's; jewellery and money totalling £150 in value from Mr T. G. McCarthy's house ; a silver watch from Mrs Hanna Watson's; and jewellery valued at £15 from the Masonic hotel, Wellington. Tlie names of the accused are Cjril Cosgrover alias Furlong, George Ferris, William Robert Sinclair, and John Hamilton. Ccsgrove recently arrived from Tasmania, and the other three from South Africa. Hamilton and Sinclair were taken in their lodgings, where the detectives were concealed in a wardrobe. Hamilton was in possession of a loaded revolver. DUNEDIN, last night. An inquiry into the circumstances surroundSng the death on the 16th instant of Jas.' Thomas Hughes, A, 8., on the ■schooner Waratah, was begun yesterday morning before Mr Graham, S.M. The schooner was bound for Duhedin from the North, and was encountering heavy weather when Hughes was washed overboard/her position then being 6ixty miles east of Oamaru. Mr Hanlon applied for an adjournment, saying he had been advised by telegram to appear on behalf ofkCaptam Running, and ho c)uid not (cross-examine witnesses (if their evidence implicated the master in any way) in the absence) of instructions. The Magistrate decided to take the evidence available. The inquiry, he remarked, was held beicauso the question had been raised as to whether sufficient precaution had been [►rovided on the vessel to prevent men rom falling overboard'. The man was supposed to have been in the galley at tlie time. The weather door was shut and the lee door open. The sea Was supposed to have bro-ken in on one side and Hughes rushed out at the lee door. The theory was that he was washed below the rail, and the question was whether there was sufficient protection there. After evidence was called the inquiry was adjourned sine" die so that Captain. Running, who is out of town, might give evidence. GORE., last night. A ra'ther extraordinary occurrence is reported from Riverßdhle. This morning a number oif fires; nere observed over the plain. A settler on making investigations saw a man deliberately setting fire to several straw-stacks. Tlie settler obtained' assistance, but in the meantime the man reached the next farm and set fire to three oat-sheaf stacks, also several straw stacks. Two of the. victims met and secured him. In' all he burned 15 stacks valued at over £400. Tlie man was brought to Gore to-night foj medical examination, seemingly being a lunatic. He arrived 1 in. the district several days ago. He is about 50 years of age, gives his name as George Murray, and states that he has a wife and three children in Dunedin.