MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland, July 9. Staff-Sergeant Crespin, of the Seventh Contingent, died yesterday from the effects of fever contracted during the Boor War. Mr William Thomas Duder, a retired farmer, left Devonport on Tuesday last in a 12 feet dinghy, and has not since been heard of. A search party discovered his oilskin coat near Puru, a mile and a half from Maraetai. It is feared that he has been drowned. Ho is a brother of Captain Dudor. Harbormaster at Auckland. Christchurch, July 9. The body of Henry Wooldridge, a resident of Papanui, was found in the estuary between Sumner and New Brighton yesterday. Wooldridge, an old tnan of 70 years of age, had been missing from his home since Wednesday morning, and his absence had caused great anxiety, as he was in a weak state of health. On inquiries, it was found that he had been seen at New Brighton on Thursday, and again on Friday. A search party waa organised yesterday, with the result that the body was found in the estuary above lowWater mark. William Henry Doyle, an inmate of the Burnham Industrial School, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on three charges of burglary. He broke into a house at Templeton and stole a bicycle : the house of the schoolmaster at Burnham, and stole clothing; and into the railway station at Burnham, and stole an assortment o? private and Government property. Gore, July 9. „ Mr G. M. Thomson, F.L.S., of Dunedin, is eatabishing a cjanide plant at Gore for the treatment of black sand from the dredges. This contains gold, but much of It is in too fine a state to be Baved by the ordinary process of streaming down. Mr Thomson's plan will command the dredging fields of Wainiumu, and if the experiment be successful he will pay the companies a certain sum for material. . , Westport, July 9. A man brutally, assaulted a respectable young married woman on Saturday night, with the intention to commit a more serious offence. The woman was much knocked about. A man named Robert Raymond, alias Mason, has been arrested, and has been identified by the woman as her assailant. He has been remanded. The steamer Kino, which broke her shaft on Saturday night, proceeds from the roadstead in tow of the Taieri for Wellington.