Second Edition HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 December 1912, Page 6

Second Edition HOME RULE.

(Received 1.55 p.m.) Lond on, Decern Her 30. Sir Edward Carson has given notice of an amendment to exclude Ulster from the Hoqie Rule Bill. BLACKMAILING THE KING. (Received 1.55 p.m.) London, December 30. Percy Collins has been remanded at Horsham on a charge of sending threatening letters to i;he King' demanding money. . . POWDER ' WORKS EXPLOSION. (Received 1.55 p.m.) St. Petersburg, December 30. A a explosion at tne Ochta Government powder works killed three persons. Fifty-one were injured, nine seriously. ’ ' FIRE. , OCCUPANTS* HURRIED ESCAPE. (P©r Press Association.) Auckland, December 31. A nine-roomed residence on Owens Road, owned by Edmund Masong and occupied by W.„B. Robinson, was totally destroyed by lire early tnis morning” The occupants were aroused by* the sound of roaring flames and escaped hurriedly with the children. No furniture was saved. The fur niture was insured for £3OO in the National, but there is a loss of £2OO above that amount. The insurances' on the building are not available. “WHEN I PUT TO »EA.” (Per Press Association.) ' Arthur Barnes, - aged 30, of New Eug.cn, Kent, England, .who came to New Zealand seven years ago, was .drowned at Waipiro Bay last evenlii company with a friend named Gumming, Barnes was riding on the beach, having,mounted a horse. Barnes had never previously ridden the animal, which commenced bucking and made out to sea, rolling over in the deep srirf. /Gumming endeavoured to.rescue him by:swimming out on his own horse, but Barnes’ horse plunged badly and thongji Cummings got hold of him he, could not free him from die saddle. , ' Settlers launched a boat and round the horse 50 yards outside tM breakwater, but there was no trace of Barnes, Whose . body Avals, subsequently I washed on the beach. y DECEASED ESTATES. (Per Press Association.) 1 Wellington, December 31. The largest estate certified torstamp duty during the month of December was William Smith s, Blenheim, £74,315. Other deceased estates in' the Taranaki district,, were : Robert McMillan, £12,043; Dame! MeCarten: £4254; Mary Douglas, £2158; Walter H. Scott, £l/08. VITAL STATISTICS. P —. I ’ (Per Press Association.) . Napier, December 31 • Only five bankruptcies were registered” in Napier district during the past twelve months. The total mimher of births registered in Napier during the year was 450, deaths 100, marriages 214. The births and mairiages show a substantial increase on last year’s figures, but the deaths decreased by fifty.