New Zealand Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12465, 25 January 1904, Page 7

New Zealand Telegrams.

P«r Bcess.-Associ.iti >n. siri£iDE. ; Dunedin, January 'Jj. F. H. Collfe'ori 'Thursday' met with an, accident ilirough p.. traction engine at Waitati. ' He, had recently purchased the engine, which- capsized over an 1 embankment arid 7 wan much damacrod. The mishap upset Collie, who \v«->nt .to the hotel ami', wrote a letter to his, Bister.- : fiis 'l)6rfv "tt'as found in the 1 pv^pc» yQSterday t j.ho rail.vay bridge.: Ifp, ■sprve^ Vj ap a,' Sergeant in jon<; of the SoutSh African con tinge n is, ahd-iVafT. ai farmer a b .tht; White R(^cl« ( near Bunedin. '' ;'; ' * .' ' WEtXINGTON GAS COALPANY. Wellington, ./tinuary -v. -■'tSM directors', W-'thfa Wellington f»a.4 ' Gompanj* Tecommend a dividerid uf (en '^hillings on ' fully 'paid Snares for' the. half year,, during >ylfi«;h tqe 'Co'rifauuplion of gas has.' been 1 the largest .^incc ' the formation, of. the,, Company. A NO'J'KD CIO'EF. MarlbOrough, Jqnua^y '$'•' If he , rc^i^ius <>£ ,(hc,la,(,e Tamuiinu ' Mahupuku, chief of the j^gj^ti.ivaiiunganu;.'.and ipVobsiWy .'one,,;with tnc greatest :politicul> tinfluenre, ajilon^st the' I ' natives, 'watf 'bitried' at Muri-in-bprough. to- day- The .funeral was uuc of the' laTgest ..seen in' the Wuiramjm district.,, * H^e Prrmior attended, ! accompanied „'fo.y llon». J. Uarroll, T. ■ Y. Duncan, and:. a- party of about '20. Messrs Seddoit and Carroll paid lujjutes to deceased for furthering t).e good feelings 'bet'we,dti the Maoris and Europeans. The Premier f-tated that the Government would erect a monu- ' mont to the late chief. , ■ > BREACHES OF LICENSING LAWS. Palmcr'ston North, iJanuary \Vj. 'isabelW Smith, licensee of the Family Hotel, was , to-day fined £J 0 and the license endorser! for Sunday trading. .Liquor wa's obtained on December '2Yth by constables from Ohvhtchurtili a,nd Auckland in plain clothes,, wii^ ttt 'defence alleged, reoresented ( thcmse'lves ' as 'btfardere. ' Mr Tbomj son,' > S,M., described, tho cat;e a& a I grosri , infringement . of -, , tie law.