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(Uy Talegrapn.—i'ross Association.) 0 MARAROA LATE. 'BAD WEATHER IN THE SOUTH. Christchurch, July 2-1. Tlie weather 011 Saturday was exceedingly cold and. wintry, and a strong south-west wind brought i'l'equent heavy rain in the afternoon. During last night much rain and hail and suoiv fell on tko higher levels of the Port Hills. .For tho first time this winter the ferry steamer Mararoa did not arrive till I.'JU p.m. today. WEIRD WAIKATO DOINCS. iIIDNICJ HT DISINTERMENT. Auckland, July 22.
A Maori chief of the Tainui tribe, named Honana Rihari, diet! at Ngnrna wahia on April 26, and tho tribe arranged for Ills burial in their ancestral ground at Raglan. "King" Mahuta wished tho chief to bo interred in the ''Royal" Cemetery at Taupiri Mountain, and a compromise was suggested that the body bo out in two, one half to bo buried at Raglan, and the other at Taupiri, but this' was not approved. After a long korcro, Msliuta ostensibly yielded to the Taiuuis' proposals, but it is stated arranged to have tho body removed surreptitiously and buried at Taupiri. l''ivo chiefs disinterred the body by night; and as a result appeared in Court at Ngaruaivhia charged with a breach <>f the Cemeteries Act.
Mr. Loughnan, S.M-, decided that ft breach of the Act had been committed. Ho said .tho dead chief wished to bo buried at Raglan, and it was only right ho should be buried with his ancestors. Defendants did not know they wer« breaking the law, so the Court considered convictions sufficient without punishment or costs. ALLEGED INCENDIARISM. Christchurch, July 22. In- connection with outbreaks of fire that occurred on Wednesday and yesterday in a house in Linwood, owned and occupied by A. 0. Keating, a young woman named Mary Pegley. a cousin of Keating's, was arrested this morning,, on a charge of incendiarism. She was brought before the Court this afternoon', and was remanded to appear next Friday.
ELECT THE UPPER HOUSE! Auckland, July 23. ■ The following resolutions were passed at the Trades and Labour Council today:—(l) That the Government be urged to bring in a Bill to mako the Legislative Council elective. (2) That the conference support the adoption of a union badge as a means towards forcing, preference to unionists. MINERS "PULL OUT." Westport, July 22. The Westport-Stockton Miners' Onion decided on ballot by 122 votes to S3 to withdraw from tlio Arbitration Court. SAD BHOOTINC FATALITY. Holiitika, July 22. A sad shooting I'atalityi occurred at Koiterangi yestorday • evening. From the meagre ■ particulars available it appears that a shooting party left a pearillo behind a door at the residence of Mr. I{. Harcmu't. .A son of his, about nine years of age, playfully, snapped it off tluw or four times without result. A schoolmate, named Rosy Norman, about the same age, then approached the house, and ho pointed the firearm at her with a jocular' remark, and ■pulled the trigger. The cartridge took effect, and the bullet lodged in the breast of tho girl. She rushed to Mrs. Harcourt, and fell into her arms, death being almost instantaneous. BUREAU ARRANGEMENTS. Palmerston, July 22.' At a public meeting held under tho auspices of the Chamber of Commerco this evening it was resolved that, in the opinion of the .meeting, the present arrangements for charging' bureau communications fees arc not' oil business, lines; that subscribers are entitled to a list, ho it daily, weekly, or monthly of fees with which they are charged; and, further, that subscribers bo not cut off from using tho bureau without formal written notice of default having been made in payments due; also, that subscribers shall ho notified by the attendant at the conclusion of each threo minutes. It was also resolvedHhat, failing a satisfactory reply from the I'ostmaster-General, tho Chamber of Commerce bo asked to take the matter up, and invito tho co-opera-tion of the other chambers throughout tho Dominion, with the' object of having tho matter redressed.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 877, 25 July 1910, Page 6
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