NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

' [BT TELEG. Iti.rB.—MESS ASSOCIATION.] ' ■ ■ '' " r*rr —,: ■• ;'-' ..-.-' PETTY.BURGLARIES. \ "■'■- 'two youths arrested: ■ .. ■ -~.-•...■ Napier, November 24; .- For some littlq time past petty .burglaries havo taken place at several business establishments in town, and small quantities of goods have ■ been,-. taken. • The: police. have . been .on the track of the suspects for the last' few days, arid on Friday and Saturday two youths were arrested, one named Percy Jones > being arrested in Wolliugton, where ho .had-'■ shipped on tho Whakarua as a,boy, and the othor, named Percy Hughes, being arrested hero on board the Niwaru, he. having shipped . on that , vessel as , .a"seaman for the Home voyage. Both youths, who are about 1-7 or 18 years of age, admit having broken into aboiit eight different business, places. The ■" wholo of/the stolen property has been recovered, amongst the articles taken being two revolvers. In searching for tho stolen property the polico struck a paper trail across the. Whare-o-Maraenui reSeVve ,which had apparently been made with tho object of guiding others to the hiding-places of the goods. ' '-.•■• ■"■ NIGHTCAPS DISASTER, ' : CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. ''' I nvere2rglll| November 24. -An . information has been, laid against Lloyd, manager of the Nightcaps mine, charging him with manslaughter in connection with the recent disaster. : BOY.'ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. ... ' Inveroargill, Ngvombcr'24.-' . Bertio James Dawson, aged six, waskillod by a horse falling on him' at Waikiwi on Saturday. His thirteen-year-old sister saw' the accident. Tho boy was riding a horse, when the , reins pot under its feet. It reared, and tho boy fell off. The hprso fell on 1 him and crushed his head. His sister pulled him from under the horse and carried him towards the house, where her mother met her. The boy neither spoke nor moved. The doctor, who arrived in twenty mim-.tcs, said the boy was dead.

COAL OUTPUT. .''.-. ■ ■ Westport, November 24. The westport Coal Company's output for the week was M.222 tons 13cw't '