NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1556, 27 September 1912, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph,—Press Association.) • ' , Invercargill, September 25. 1 An old landmark known as t.lie Union Hotel in tlio license day's, and since occupied by Ill's. Kennell.v as a boarding- j house, was Rutted by fire at 3 o'clock this morning. The insurance on the building is jCGOO, and ol\ the Contents JIM, both in the A : ow Zealand ofilcc. * Thames, September 25. 1 Frank Corkliam, aged forty, failed to return home last night. This morning his wifo received a letter by post statin? , that lie strained himself, the pain was ' not endurable, and ho would be found on i a hill. A search party discovered him almost in extremis, with an empty lysol Iwtllp alongside, ITe is now in the hospital in a critical condition. , Christchurc'h, September 25. Tlio Education Board to-day postponed' consideration of an application from two Romnti Catholic secondary schools for cognition as institutions at which scholar-, i ships oild [fee places nro to be held.' ! Invercargill, September 21. An inquiry has been opened by Mr. Ayson, Fisheries Inspector, into the'effect I of netting (rout on the fishing capabilities of the Southland rivers. ' Evidence was given on Ix-half of the Ac- • climalisalion Society that there Ims been . n marked diminution in rivei 1 trout, and 1 the society askeil that the right to net bo ; cancelled, or ut least that only bona, fldo ; iisliermen be allowed to net. The in- j quiry is proceeding, . Glsbornc, September 24. Gnstav Rudolph Frieckcn, who was r»- ' leased after boing committed for sentence to the Supremo Court owilit; to the papers j not being in order, pleaded guilty to-day, t before the magistrate, on the origiuat , chargn of horse floating, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. | Auckland, September 21. i The steamer Kaipara arrived from Ho- i burl this morning. She encountered a hurricane on September 19. Iter deck fit- j tings were washed awa.v, the ladies' saloon Cabin slove-in, and the ollicers' qilur- ; tors flooded to a considerable depth. Tho 1 starboard gangway was broken from its ■ t lashings and washed over the clinrthouso | into the sea. A temporary bathroom and / wnsh-houso on deck was also wiHicd . ij overboard. Tlio skylights wore smashed, ' | and some plates of the freezer bent. Tlmaru, September 20. I Win, Duncan (alias Eriwator), aged 20, a Rnrnlmm escapo (Xo. 1.16). arrested at j Port Chalmers, pleaded guilly to four , charges of breaking and entering houses in this district, lie was committed for j sentence and remanded lo Asliburton on ! a similar charge near (-hat (own. Ho was | also committed of absconding from | nurnliam. I 1?. Watorhoiise, a cflbiiicfmakev's em- I Jiloyoe, had his right, arm neatly cut off ' ii"low the elbow bv a circular sftw. He j had l>een in tho lirtl>it of putting his hand over a 10-ineli saw and (ho guide, and did the salne with a now It-inch saw. Doth b!mos were cut through. I Danncvirke, September 20, ! At- the Ontiondville Court j Thomas Dickson was remanded milil October lon a charge of embezzlement from / his employers (llookctt njid Colo, store- fj kocuers, 'lil-kanaiii, •