NEWS IN BRIEF

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 324, 15 January 1907, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Later details show that about £I7OO has been recovered from the Elingamite. Great earthquake shocks in America and Europe. A New Zealand Nurserymen’s Association has been formed at Christchurch. The Government have appointed Mr John Kidd Inspector of Machinery. Many people were killed by a train falling over an embankment in Russia. A hundred miners, mostly State convicts, are entombed in an Alabama mine. Twenty people were burned' to death in a factory fire in Prussia. Another Russian Chief of Police has been assassinated. Political prisoners in Russia resolved to die by starvation rather than submit to the treatment they were receiving. Lionel Terry, having become very violent, has been placed under restraint in Lyttelton gaol. The Waimana compensation case has concluded. The award is equal to about £4 per acre. Captain Sunderberg, master of the schooner Jessie Niccol, died suddenly at Dunedin, on Saturday. Two men have been admitted to the Wellington Hospital, suffering from serious wounds, mysteriously inflicted. A young woman named Lily Martin, was knocked down by a tram car in Auckland on Saturday night. Her condition is serious. Two Chinese, Yow Lee and Ah Chow were before the Wellington S.M. Court ou Saturday charged with serious effences against two girls under the age of 16. Rhedjio has enabled many a poor sufferer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago, to once more enjoy health and happiness. 2/6 and 4/6. Sold everywhere.