Interprovincial Items.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4291, 5 January 1910, Page 4

Interprovincial Items.

By Telegraph —-Press Association. Wairoa (H. 8.), Last Night. A half-caste committed suicide at Nuhaka yesterday by hanging himself to a manuka tree. Gisborne, Last Night. Whilst loading operations were in progress with the Tyser steamer Ncrehanrf, a bale of wool fell upon a man named Charles Poison, and br«ke his arm. A Gisborne resident who recently visited the Covent Garden Market, London, was told by a representative j of a firm that caters for the best English trade in fruit, that undoubtedly j the best apples received on the mar-; ket were the Otago apples from New Zealand, which were always largely sought after. A Waikaremoana settler, through whose property the Waikaretaheke flows for a short distance, is about to make an attempt to harness the water-power and make it work for him, instead of running to waste. It is proposed to erect a turbine to generate electricity, which he proposes to use in order to light his residence, run his sheep-shearing plant, cut firewood and chaff, and do the hundred and one things required on a station. Wellington, Last Night. A man named Clerkenwell, lately from Dunedin, is missing from a Wellington boardinghouse. He is about 50 years of age, oft Sin in height, of medium build, with dark hair and complexion. He has been miaisng for a week. The New Zealand Shipping Company, the Federal-Houlder-Shire, the Tyser, and the Shaw-Savill lines have decided to reduce freights on wool to gd per lb for greasy wool, and id for scoured. The rates ruling at present are 7-ltid for greasy wool, and 9-lfid for scoured, the reduction proposed being l-16d per lb in each case on the present tariff. Dunedin, Last Night. A peculiar accident, resulting in the injury of a bowler, and the termi--1 nation of a batsman’s innings, occurred at the Otago and Southland cricket match. Scott, of the Southland team, was bowling to Calloway, of the Otago eleven. Calloway drove the hall back very fast. Scott put up his hands to make the catch, but the I ball struck him on the temple with I such force that it knocked him down, j The ball then rebounded in the air, j and was caught by Irwin at square 1 leg. Calloway’s innings being thus j curiously closed. Scott was unable to ! take further part in the game.