NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1368, 20 February 1912, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

PRIVATE HOTEL BURNT,

BOARDER'S DEATH. ■ ThamM, February 19, 4 fire, attended with fatal .results, o> curnxl ut Pocroa. A large private hotel, tlio Royal Mail, owned and occupied by George Crosby, a. Well-known - resident, was completely enveloped in flair/*. There was no chauoo of saving, it,, anil the building was. burnt to the ground. Several boarders'had narrow estxipos in their night attire. . ■ .' V' '

The firo is believed t<. have commenced in a room occupied by a young man, Seotty. Preston, an engineer, aged .21. Sbmo boarders endeavoured to reach his room, but wero driven back by smoke and flame*. Preston was burnt to death! ' Thj insurance on the building amounted to JCBOO, and on the furniture and• effects .£650. Crosby is a heavy loser. '. CAR OVERTURNED. . . . Gore, February'l9. A motor-car accident occurred , tetweca Mataura and Brydone yesterday. A car driven by D. Corcoran, Waikaka, met ,a farmer named Ryan on horseback. The horso shied and collided, with the car, which had slowed down. The car capsized; and the man Ryan sustained a broken ing. M. Francis' (Corcoran's father-in-law) was thrown out of tlie car,, and had a rib broken. Mrs. Corcoran, received abrasions on the face and forehead. Ryan aid Irancis wore conveyed to-the'(Sore Hoenital, and tho others were able to return home. ... ■• DENTIST TO PAY, ■' ■ Auckland, February ID; the Supremo Court, in the case Ethel Ellen Wateon'v. W. M. Fyfo, dentist, of Onehnnwi, a claim for JC2OO damages for unskilful treatment in extracting teeth, the jury founi a verdict for plaintiff for £50 damages. Costs were awarded on tho lowest scale; HAMILTON. CASES. Hamilton, February 19.' Before Mr. Loughnnn, S.M., to-day, Jbn Alexander Smythe, land agont. was fined J£> and costs, for travelling on tho railways without a ticket. . ..':■.. Three more prosecutions agninst yoiithi for failing to attend Tcrritorinl parades we're taken. Each defendant was fined. <£2 and costs. .■•■-'■■' TERINA PINE'S BURIAL... ' Taihape, February 19. The tangi in connection with the death of Tcri'na Pino, tho mother- of.the well, known footballers, . concluded yesterday, when the remains we're, interred , vnthtfie usual observances.- Tho'-Uev.-.Slav-Wil-liams, of Utiki, officiated, and was tissieled by two. Native clerfry. Thore was , , a very large gathering of Natives and Biuopeans, and tho procession fo the NativeCnurch and the burial ground was hoadod by.th* Taihnpe Band. . ' •, , •■'... ... , BREACH OF PROMISE. ... ;. Dunedin, February. 19. : In an , undefended: breach of projiiia ctee, in which Jane, Hufjhcs, iOi Cambrians, claimed JKOi,' tKo< jury found, for the • full amount. ■ Defendant, while- engaged to. plaihtiff, married another girl, leavjng. Jliss Hughes to .ascertain thf fact from her friends. ' - ■ • BRIEF MENTION.--, ',■: ■ ■ , ■■]■■.- Dunedin, February 19:' The price of fresh.mirk has .been' increaaod 2d. perlb'., aiid: bnoon,.bjva'half« pciinv .to "a. penny- per lb. '■ v ~',' .'■ ['■■.'■'. :■".. - ■ ■■''- HaWerai, February 19.- ■ Tho police. have received'-- infbrmatioa that Alexander 'Bannalyno •.■Stewart, ; a settler .at Norinanby, -has. shot;litmsell and'is dead. •..•■.•'.. DECREE NISI, . Dunedin, February .19.Tn the Supremo Court toyhy ■ deere«» nisi were ;granted in tho following divorce cases:—Mary Mason Kidd. v, .Thos. Allaa Kidd (desertion); Mary' Hannah"Jolly y. Robt. Jolly (misconduct); Mary Sinclair v. .Jas. Sinclair '.'(desertion); King v. Frederick Henry King (desertion) THE YOUTH AND THE OATH.

Auckland, February 19. Another Defence Act prosecution fi&» ured in the Police Court this morning, when. a youth named Francis , Roy. Hogarth was charged that, .being a person required by the Defence Act. to-take the' oath of. allegiance, ho 4'efused to do eo. As Hogarth still refused to-.take the oath he was fined .£2 and 9s. cobls.