LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11121, 8 November 1907, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day

Two young Japanese were charged at the Police Court with deserting the British ship Habart. They submitted a written statement, which has-been translated into English, setting out that they were Japanese students who had been sent out from Japan to make themselves acquainted with, that grand; arid' honorable English nation, the rulers of the world. They asked that they should not be compelled to return to their skip' 'with 1 an "unhonorable face," for they 'Would have m> other method than death as. Japanese. The case was adjourned to procure ah interpreter. • . x TE AROHA. this day. A four-roomed house, occupied by Mr Maxwell, wus gutted by fire last night, through a lighted candle being left in the children's room. Three children were nearly- suffocated. The brigade appeared promptly and saved most.oi the enects. PALMERSTON NY, tiuVday. A meeting of hotel, boarding-house and restaurant-keepers decided to form a Caterers' Union, to rais,e the tariffs owing to the high price of the necessaries of life. ■'-. A sub -commit tee was set up to prepare details of the revised';, tariff and submit them to a future meeting. • ';- .

• ■ HOKITEKA; this day. Mr John. Tait, photographer, died this morning, after along illness. .He had been a resident here since 1865, and filled a number of public positions, that of Mayor. • '■■. ' • OAMARU, this day. Mrs Borrie, wife of Mr Daniel Borrie, chairman of the Waitaki County Council, died at her residence at Papakaia thi6 morning. Tlw deceased lady' landed at Port Chalmers from the ship -Maori in 1857, and has been a resident- of Oamaru district for over 42 years. DUNEDIN, this day. John Robertson, hotelkeeper at Alexandra- South, adjudicated ;i buikr t}>t in July, has bctn commit ted- to trial ior failing to keep proper books of accounts. At the competitions to-day, :the humorous recital was won by Miss . Gardner l,Dunedin), Mrs Sutcliffe (Wellington) and Miss Lulu Arnold (Wellington) being, second and third.