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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8134, 8 May 1906, Page 5

Counterfeit sovereigns are said to be in circulation in Carterton.

By the steamer Rimutaka, which sails on Thursday, the Farkvale Dairy Company will ship 110 cases of ohebse to England.

A Sydney cablegram last evening stated that Neville McWilliams, who has been blind from birth, has been admitted to practice as a barrister.

A chimney on fire in Queen Street, Masterton, was the oause of the firebell ringing shortly before 7 o'clock last evening.

A cablegram from Brisbane this morning states that there was a general holiday for the Eight Hours celebrations. The weather was tine, and the procession and sports were highly successful.

Owing to the success of the Moturoa oil bore other districts in the Taranaki Province are commencing to bestir themselves in the matter of prospecting. The Inglewood and Eltham districts have long been known as oil-hearing country A telegram from Auckland yesterday stated that the dead body of John Fitzgerald, aged 78, a Coromandel prospector, who has been missing since Friday, was found at the bottom of an old overgrown air shaft. His neck was broken, and the body was otherwise mutilated. A telegram from Napier, laSevening, stated that a man named Wm. White, a dairy farmer and pork butcher, of /.Greenmeadows. left homo yesterday morning to go to Pernhill, but not having returned last evening a search was made for him. His horse and cart were found, and a note was stuck in his bat which indicated that he iutended to commit suicide. • The body has not yet been discovered. An accident happened on Saturday to a tram conductor in Wellington named Frederick Marshall (son of Mr K. A. Marshall, of' Wellington) which puts the young man's life in jeopardy. He was collecting fares ou the top of an Aro Street "double deck" car on Lambton Quay, and .in leaning over the side to look up the track, his head came into contact with one of the tramway poles in the centre of the double line of rails. Marshall was knocked back almost senseless into the car. He was taken into the tramway office opposite the Govern - men Railway Station, where he lapsed into unconsciousness. Dr Izard was called, and from a cursory glance pronounced that the lad had suffered concussion of the brain.