NEWS IN BRIEF

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 321, 8 January 1907, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF

Potato blight has made its appearance in Waihi. The Elverland’s crew arrived safely in Auckland. The outward ’Frisco mail leaves Auckland on Friday. Mr Cassatt, the American railway magnate, has left 20 millions sterling. M. Gambon, French Ambassador in London, has been transferred to Berlin. Christchurch ladies are talking about importing Danish servants. During the fortnight ending Wednesday, January 2, 46,167 passengers left the Christchurch railway station, A single man named G. F. Clark committed suicide at Auckland on Saturday by taking carbolic acid. The terriorists at Lodz (Russia) threaten to murder all workmen who resume work. Pacific mail liner wrecked off the coast of California. A hundred people are missing. The takings of the Wellington city tramways during the week ending New Year’s Day amounted to ,£2270. Williams’' meat preserving works at Camperdown (N.S.W.) has been destroyed by fire. The “ Sydney Morning Herald ” publishes revelations of girl slavery of a revolting kind among the returned kanakas. The police in Perth last week raided an alleged gaming house, and seized some gaming instruments and £BO in cash, Australian Agents-General have secured a large amount of space for a combined display at the Anglo-French Exhibition next year, Morley, the man who was shot in connection with the Tower Hill mine (W.A.) robbery, has made a written confession of guilt. Eighty-eight rinks have entered for the bowling tournament at Christchurch, and three games are to be played each day. At the Auckland lawn tennis tournament Whangarei won the men’s singles (B grade), ladies’ singles, ladies doubles, and the combined doubles. Thousands of people have viewed the body of the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, which is lying in state at her Strattonstreet house. At Tisburn, near Invercargill, a farmer named Jas. Wright was gored to death by a bull,, one horn being driven clean through his body, from back to chest. The jumping mare, Lady Morton, broke the Australasian high jump record at Christchurch on Saturday, clearing 7ft. Of in. The success of General Booth’s antisuicide bureau has been so marked that branch offices are being opened in the large provincial towns. By a curious coincidence, accidents have befallen three different somnambulists in Sydney during the past fortnight. In two cases the injuries proved fatal. No decision has yet been arrived at by the Government as to the personnel of the Native Land Commission, neither has the scope of the Commission been agreed to. Superintendent Webb, of the Sydney Fire Brigade, reports that electric light wires have added enormously to the dangers of firemen, and they should be insulated.

A copy of a painting of Captain Cook, which is hanging in the Trinity House, Hull, has been sent to the director of the Colonial Museum, Wellington, by Mr J. D. Eays, late of Castle Hill Station, Canterbury.