LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1302, 4 December 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The s.s. Maheno, from Sydney, with English and Australian mails on hoard, arrived at Auckland at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The Wellington and "southern porhqiiH of (ho mail will arrive in town by (hq Main Trunk express this afternoon, The now wharf at Miramnr was used on Saturday for the first'.timo since its recent extension, the Wairaw berthing there comfortably for (he discharge of a cargo of timber from Dlackbnll. The distribution of prizes in connection with the Wellington Technical School is to take place at St. Peter's Schoolroom to-morrow owning. T'jifro will bo an exhibition of students' work in'tlm school on Thursday, Friday, and Salur. day. A body was found upon (he bench at Paremafa yesterday afternoon, which is assumed to be that of Antonio Fcrrati, who was the victim of a boating accident in the neighbourhood, a fortnight ago. An inquest will bo held at l'oriru'a to-dav at 4.31) p,in, A young man was arrested on Saturday afternoon by Detective Mason. Ho will appear in the Magistrate's Court this morning on a charge of theft. Indications of a somewhat serious accident on the. Johnsonvillc Road wero reported by a motorist who returned to town at about 10 p.m. last evening. He stated that at a point about 200 yards on tho Johusonvillo side of tho municipal abattoir yards a buggy was standing bv (he roadside minus a wheel, whilo at tho bottom of the road embankment, at this point about twenty feet high, a motorcar was.lying, right side up, but also minus a wheel. Apparently the car nnd buggy had collided, with the result that the impact of tho collision had driven the ear over tho bank. No mora definite particulars wero obtainable last night,