NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1352, 1 February 1912, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Toloßrapfc-PreEs Association.) SEQUEL TO TRAP ACCIDENT.

' . Nelson, January 31. Patrick J. Boss, who was tud over by ft trap at Motueka, has died of pneumonia, caused by tho accident. At tho inquest a verdict of accidental death was reamed.

BAD TIME FOR SHEEP FARMERS. Christchurch, January 31. Sheep farmers in tho bnck country of the Amuri appear to have passed through a very severe winter last year, and tho shearing tallies, which are not yet quite completed, bear this out. On two of the stations in the country mentioned it is estimated that each has lost about 15,000 sheep, and the lambing average is down to about 40 per cent.

TROUT SMOKE HOUSE, Napier, January 31. Sir Joseph Ward wag impressed during his visit to Taupo with the waste of trout going on under the present system, which, makes no provision for its preservation. Since then correspondence has been going on with a view to tho'- establishment of a smoke-houso for trout. One ijmn has already been engaged as fish-curer, and another is to be appointed. A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER. Dunedin, January 31. A girl aged It was brought up'at the Juvenile Court this morning on remand nn a charge of stealing clothes and money from a boardinghouse at tit. Kilda, where she was employed. The Magistrate remitted her to the care of the city missionary until tho return of the Rev Mr Axelsen, in charge of tho Presbyterian Orphanage to get her into a situation ihere wero six previous convictions against tho girl.