General News.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8602, 5 March 1897, Page 3

General News.

The Coromandel Harbour Board engineer recommending improved wharfage accommodation suggests the extending of the whole lengtl' of the wide part, at the end of the wharf; 12Sft, so as to allow vessels to lie wp at both sides ; the steps to be removed and used for boat», at the beginning of the wide part of the wharf; the old timber to be renewed where necessary. He also suggests that tile wharf might be lengthened 100 ft, if the Board thought fit. Yesterday morning in Auckland Mr H. W. Northcroft was waited upon by several friends at his residence and presented with a handsome gold watch suitably inscribed, Mr Northcroft left by the Mahinapua en route to Wanganui yesterday to take up hia now duties. It was intended that a public testimonial should also have been presented prior to his departure, but owing to the necessary permission to make the presentation net having been granted in l time, the document which has been largely | signed, will be forwarded to Air Northcroft an an early date. Ait inquest was held at Fnkeoire, Tairua, by MrH. Gow, J.P., on the 27th ult, on George Henry Laycock, aged 55 years. Deceased was cleric and bookkeeper for his brother, Mr Henry Laycock, of Tairua. On the 25th he was in one of the stores at Pukeoire when he complained of severe pairs in his chest. His nephew got him to lie down and Dr Smith was sent for, but Laycock died before the doctor's arrival. A post mortem was made and it was found that though deceased had suffered for some time from enlargement of the heart the immediate cause of death was rupture of the lungs from a strain The jury returned a verdict accordingly. Deceased was a widower and leaves three children

On Tuesday night a lady on horeeback had a narrow escape from serious injury while riding down the Paeroa-Thatnes road. When a little on the Paeroa side of the racecourse she met a dray, and in attempting to pass it went a little too near the edge of the ditch, with the result that the horse lost his balance, and the rider was preeipitat- ' ed into the ditch.iv which there was water to the depth of th cc feet, and as the lady was underneath and the horae on top, it w marvellous that she was nut killed. i\ rtunately, some workmen from the racecourse came along and rescued her from her |,recari- I ous position, with little injury beyond a few | bruises and a wetting.