NEWS IS BRIEF.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 322, 10 January 1907, Page 5

NEWS IS BRIEF.

There is intense heat at Masterton, Kobert J. Stewart, 21, suicided by shooting himself at Dunedin. A burglary was committed at the Coronation Hotel, Elthan, and £SO stolen. Mr W. A. Shain, engineer, at Nelson, was found dead in his office. Reported an attempt was made to burglarise the Union Bank, Hamilton. Canterbury is experiencing the driest season for forty years. Brick workers homes are to be built by the Government in Wellington. The death roll at the Bingen railway works catastrophe now stands at 23. Prayers for rain were offered in the Nelson churches on Sunday. Taranaki beat Auckland in the tennis match by 10 matches to 9. There is a scarcity of labour on the Queensland cane fields. Rev. J. Orchard, Methodist minister at Christchurch, is dead. N.Z. River Plate Co. have declared a dividend of 7 per cent. An empathic denial is given to the rumor that Oceanic (’Frisco) steamers have been sold to Japan. A horse attached to a baker’s cart at Ross (Westland) bolted, and killed an old age pensioner, named Simpson, who tried to stop it. Four “ respectable-looking ” women at Auckland were fined £lO each for shoplifting. The reciprocal Customs treaty between South Africa and New Zealand is gazetted. A negro named Garrett was tried for murder in Texas, convicted, sentenced and banged within two hours. David Dully, draper’s assistant, was drowned while bathing in the Wairaakariri river. At Auckland two boys named Costello, for theft, were convicted and ordered to received a whipping. A farm hand named Alfred Edward Newdick, shot ■ himself at the Upper Hutt. Mr John Macpherson, an old wellknown resident of Wairaate Plains, (Otago), died suddenly on Monday. Austin, a Victorian, has submitted to the War Office ah invention for sighting guns in the roughest of weather. Thos. Ritchie, dock hand, received sunstroke at Port Chalmers, and died in the hospital. Florence Beatrice Lascelles, 3.j- years, was drowned at the Western Spit, Napier, on Tuesday, Detective Mcllveney was seriously injured at the Bluff through a gang-way rope breaking and throwing him back on the wharf. Mr Henry Howorth, examiner of titles in the Land Transfer and Deeds Office at. Wellington, died there yesterday, after a idiort illness, aged 72. A man named Thomas Phillips, of Waimate, working on the Midland railway, dropped dead at ten o’clock on Sunday night.

Patrick McCarty, a porter at the Hawera Railway Station, aged 27, was lulled by the engine of the mail train during shunting operations. Captain Gabriel Essipoff and Madame Onehakoff, who eloped from St. Petersburg in May last, have arrived in Melbourne in straitened circumstances. Nurses Heath and Bell, of the Hamilton Hospital, were among the successful candidates at the recent nurses’ examinations. A specimen of petroleum brought in from Kent-road, New Plymouth, presents probably the finest surface indications yet found. The property, which consists of 103 acres, has been purchased outright by Mr Steel. The jury in the Calliope Dock inquiry found that due precautions had not been taken in seeing to the chocks before docking the Mamari, and censured the Harbor Board for not clearly defining the duties of their officers.