WANGANUI.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 8, 23 February 1910, Page 5

WANGANUI.

Wreck Washed Ashore. The Customs authorities at Wanganui were advi-ed on Wednesday that the hull of a vessel with the afterpart broken away was seen on the beach. about a mile north of the Wanganui River. The police will visit the scene. The wreckage found near Wangaehu recently is reported by the police to be part of the schooner Vruroa. wrecked here 15 months ago. Alleged Incendiarism. As a sequel to the fire which destroyed the Rutland Hotel, at Wanganui, on the night of January 22, Martin Haynes and Joseph Davis, manager and proprietor of the jewellery and fancy goods shop in which the outbreak occurred, were charged, the former with setting fire to the shop in the Rutland Hotel building, and the latter witl counselling Haynes to do so. The m-'t were arrested consequent on a work- 1 man finding a quantity of jewellery and fancy goods and books, which were supposed to have been burned in the fire, near their rooms. The police ascertained that three parcels were -hipped by Davis to Nelson on January 11, and inquiries made in Nelson revealed that the stock, said by Davis to be worth £3OO, and insured there by him for £2OO, had been found stored in a Nelson auction room. Destraction of Brisk. The Wanganui Chamber of Commerce has decided to send a protest to the Minister in charge of the Tourist Department against the destruction of bush and fern scenery on the banks of the Wanganui river. It was stated that Maoris and others were cutting down bush, and were not even sowing grass, allowing noxious weeds to spread.