NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 24 December 1912, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Tcloeraph — Press Association.) WOOL TRANSPORT PROBLEM. A DIFFICULTY OVERCOME. Dannevirke, December 23. The difficulty reported on Saturday last relative to the carriage of wool on the railways consequent on Ministerial orders suspending'ordiiiary Roods traflic on Friday and Saturday last, lias been averted. Arrangements have been made to convey ail wool offering to Napier in time to catch the catalogue of the second wool sale. The position was due to the adjustment of trucking the respective districts, and tho running of those loaned from Wanganui and Auckland districts. A ■,'train of eighty' empties left here yesterday for Marton. OLD LADY FOUND DEAD. Auckland, December 23. Margaret Hill, aged eighty years, was found dead in a gutter near her residence at Birkenhead, it is supposed from shock caused by a fall.. THE : LIFT IN BUTTER. Dunedin, December 23. Inquiries locally show that there is no increase in tho price of butter. It is thought the rise in Wellington is probably due to the Christmas rush. ADVENTIST COLLEGE BURNT.

Cambridge, December 23. The Seventh Day Adventist Training College, a building containing over 'fifty rooms, situated three miles from Cambridge, was totally destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. Nothing was saved. Tho origin is a mystery. The insurances totalled .£2400 on buildings and .COM on furniture in. various offices. The property was lately purchased by Messrs. Nickle Bros., the Adventists occupying it till the end of the year. Most of the furniture had been removed to the new college near Palmerstou last week. The students were nearly all away on holiday. CABLE BOAT AND FIREMEN. Auckland, December 23. Trouble with firemen on vessels trading round tho New Zenland coast seems to be increasing. The firemen signing on the cable steamer Iris to-day for tho trip to Norfolk Island demanded M per day. This was refused, and, after great trouble, the captain secured the twenty men required at award rates. ■ - RAILWAY COLLISION. Greymouth, December 23. This afternoon, the 3.15 p.m. GreymoutkQtira mixed train collided with a timber special from To ICinga, which was shunting at tho Brunner yards. The mixed, train overran the points and crashed into the engine of the timber train. Both engines were damaged, and three trucks of the mixed train were derailed. Tho tim-; ber engine wa9 able to resume the journey. The traffio was held up for over two hours. No one was injured. FOUND DROWNED. Nelson, December 23. At the adjourned inquest touching the death of Kaspar Anderson, a seaman on the scow Southern Isles, who was found drowned in the harbour on December 9, tlio coroner returned a verdict that tho deceased had been found drowned, thero being no evidence to.show how he got into tho water. DID NOT KNOW ifwAS LOADED. Napier, December 23. A lad named Harry Murrow, aged 14, met with a serious accident yesterday. He was engaged in cleaning a pea rifle, not knowing it was loaded, and the cartridge exploded, the bullet entering his stomach. The lad was removed to a private hospital, but although tho bullet has not yet been located, ho is not considered to be in immediate danger. BRIEF MENTION. Dunedin, December 23. William Brice, a widower, aged 74, died suddenly at Mornington last night while sitting in his- chair, apparently from heart disease. Deceased had come down from Christchurch on a visit to his son.

New York City must get its Christmas trees this year from some other than its usual source of supply. The Department of Agriculture has barred the sending of such trees from New England, because of tho prevalence thero of tho gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth. It hopes thus to prevent tho spread of these pests.

Home-brewed beer has of late years, says Harold Simpson, in his recently published "Rambles in Norway," largely displaced spirts as the national drink of tho Norwegians. It is so pupular that it is used even at breakfast to washd down tho stock dish—fried pork smothered in onions.

Only about olio per cent, of tho total woaltli of the United States is invested in church property, but, according to Dr. Booker Washington, over eight per cent, of the'wealth of the negroes of tho country is invested in this way. They hnvo 35,000 churches, with 3,700,000 members.

Three accidents on one railway havo within fifteen months cost the road .£300,000, according to newspaper reports. That sum would havo gone a long way towards providing every possible safely device. Railway men assert that these wrecks were the result of false economy.

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