NEWS IN BRIEF

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 384, 11 June 1907, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF

Exceptionally heavy frost at Christchurch last Saturday mommy. There is to bea reduction of £500,000 in military expenditure in India. Alex. McKenzie, an old Gisborncite, is dead. # William Waldorf Astor has given for London charities £40,000. A man named Hansen was thrown from a buggy at Eketahuna and seriously injured. The Rev. J. Gjllctt was run over by a motor car at St. Kilda, Melbourne, and

killed. - C. Ballantync, an Auckland footballer, had his collarbone fractured in a match last Saturday. King and Queen of Denmark have arrived at Portsmouth. They were escorted by four cruisers from Flushing. One jocked was killed and others were injured at the Oaklands Hunt Club’s

meeting at Melbourne on Saturday. Thomas Keeting was fined £35 at Grcymouth for having opium in his possession. Mr David Griffiths, a well-known resident of Rotorua, died there on Saturday morning. . According to “Freeman’s Journal,” the conditions of Ireland arc becoming more critical. The formal opening of the electric tramway track from Wellington to Miramar North took place last Friday. It is stated in Australian cricket circles that the suspension of the players

is\to be unconditionally lifted on July 1. " At the inquest held in Sydney on -the bodies of the man Livermore and his wife, whom he murdered, it Was stated that the husband drank all he earned, ■ G. H. Pearsons, Town Clerk at Waimate, has been arrested on a charge of misappropriating £2BB of the Council’s money. 1 fl i Certain, benefits in the new taiiff arrangements with Germany arc extended by /Bmerica to France, hut denied to Great Britain. The sum of £50,928 was put through

the totalisator at the recent race meeting at Auckland, an increase on last year’s meeting of nearly £7OOO. ■ A miner named John Lcecc died in the Wesport Hospital, as the result of an accident from a fall of coal in the Wesport Coal Company’s Creek Mine. The partial relief of the drought in South-eastern Europe is leading to a ) pause in the London wheat market. Consumers are showing unwillingness to pay present prices. j> i lb is. freely reported in Wellington that •i the Acting-Premier (Hon. Hall Jones) will, owing to the unsatisfactory state of his health, shortly resign from political life. ■

John Beaufort, surveyor, was killed, at Pahiatua, by falling down a staircase. The jury, at the inquest, found that death resulted while Beaufort was under the influence of liquor.