LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12097, 15 March 1910, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

,'. (Per Press Association.) [. ■. ' . NELSON, this day. ' The heavy northerly gale and torrential rain at Takaka continued to-day. The ".vlwirf is 3 inches under Mater. The tide is the hichest on record. The ketch. Venture broke from her moorings and. drifted on to a mudbank, where she was safely anchored. Flooded rivers are expected at high tide to-night. At Nelson tlii3 flood hag 'subsided considerably. The damage done is principally '.confined to the Port road, Stoke. and northern parte, of the Wood, includ-' ing a washout of three-quarters of a mile of railway a Stoke. . llie rowing club's boat landing and Lukiii's wliar. ' is under flood. Theve was a depth 0! 18 inches of- water, m. houses m Trafalgar street. North and Wainui .street. Vhf water is still lying m gardens, witliout, an outlet. ; ..." . \ GREYMOUTH, litis day. Charles Frederick Cambridge, aged 32, married, a farmer, was drowned yesterday at mid-day through the capsizing 61 ■a boat used as a punt witht a wire rope, alio rope broke, 'causin}i the accident. Cambridge's fatlu*'J , - : '-.. v *' s .Mes «t Belfast, near Christchurch!'' An inquest is beiiig held to-day\ , s Athletes arc arriving by every available route to attend the championship meeting to-morrow and 1 nureday. The Arahura is still bar-bound. She is expected to go back to Westport if not able to get m this evening. The Supreme Court is engaged hearing three civil actions to-day. Tomorrow .the j iiidges and ' -.1 ssessois visit Ngtihere to inspect land alleged to have been damaged by railway construction, for which compensation is claimed by tho owner. * CHBISTCHURCIF, .this day. A number of orchardrist* were fined £1 and costs to- day, for failing to keep the codlin moth iv check. Tho Magistrate commented adversely on the. action of the Department m prosecuting a few people, causing , expense and irritation when the authorities had power to order the treatment of trees at the expense of owners. He aiid' the moth was not likely to bo stamped 1 omt by prosecutions. " The iuspector said tho prosecutions were intended iq lot people know that the Act liad to be observed.