NEWS IN BRIEF

Waikato Independent, Volume III, Issue 184, 27 January 1906, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF

David Gibson, aged 42, was killed by a gun accident at Tirnaru. The price of the best Cardiff coal has advanced 2s per ton since December. Mrs Barbara McLellan, a widow, aged 57, living in North East Valley, Dunedin, died suddenly from heart disease. Daniel Landy, cook of the steamer Brisbane, was stricken with paralysis, and died on Thursday. A large dam and several whares have -- been destroyed by bush fires at Corouandel. The flames of the bush fires in Gippsland, Australia, have in some places been 150 feet high. Albert Andrews, 8 years, was run over by a truck at Whangarei and seriously injured. The Premier says that if all goes well he hopes to visit Australia in about three The Waikato Council has decided to call tenders at once for the erection of a footbridge at Claudelands over the river. Miss Brown, daughter of Professor " Brown, of Auckland, was knocked down by. an express at Dunedin, and received serious injuries. On a charge of adulterating colonial butter, Coopraan Young, of Smithfield, has been fined £2O on one count, and 20s on another. John Frederick Crook, aged 19 years, serving a three years’ sentence for theft, escaped from the prison works at Mount Cook. <■ Mr L. Andrew, of Thames, has won the mining scholarship for the North Island, and Mr J. Williams, of Eeefton, a similiar scholarship for West Coast, worth £l5O per year for three years and tuition at the Otago University. The engine attached to a train returning to Wanganui from the Hawera Band Contest, ran off the line. Three cars were derailed, but the passengers escaped Tomatoes are now coming into Wellington freely, and prices are on the down grade. They were readily saleable a week or two ago at Is per pound, bub they are now obtainable in some quarters at onethird that price. The military stables at Willesden were destroyed by fire. Seventy-eight of the horses were destroyed. Two hundred others were liberated from their stalls. They stampeded in the streets, and a pedestrian was galloped over and killed. The Government on Thursday ~ authorised the expenditure of the unexpended balances in the buildings and maintenance vote to the various Education Boards amounting to £40,000, the allocation being on the basis laid down in the report of the Education Committee,