NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waikato Independent, Volume IV, Issue 291, 16 October 1906, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Union S.S. Co. are having three new boats built in Scotland. A man named Patrick Delaney died in a cell ab the Petone Police Station early on Saturday. The school committees in the Northern "Wairoa are raising funds for technical schools in the district. It is reported that a pipless apple tree has been found on a Maori clearing on the Maunwaharuru (H. 8.) range. The Minister for railways is preparing a scheme for the utilisation of waterpower for the working of the railways of the colony. The Koruhoa Block, comprising about 6000 acres of land (Northern Wairoa) has been sold to Mr G. Bailie, of Taranaki, for £20,000. A Maori, named Tawhare, was killed at the Waioha Gorge, about eight miles from Opotiki, on Thursday evening, while engaged in felling timber. A miner named "Walter Humphries met with a painful accident in the Waihi mine. It appears that he was engaged near a laddenvay, when he got his hand crushed by a ladder slipping and causing a fracture of some of his knuckles.