NEW ZEALAND

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 159, 8 January 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association). i Christchurch, Jan. 7. | A man named William Donnelly, who was run over by a cab a week ago, has died in the hospital. At the inquest a verdict was returned to the effect that he ' died from injuries received in being run I over by a cab, but there was no evidence to show whose cab it was. At Prebbleton last night a woman named Emily Williams, aged 60, went out to look for eggs in a gorse fence, and later she was found lying dead in a ditch. Auckland, Jan. 7. On the voyage of the Kotomahana from Sydney, John McLeod, bedroom steward, jumped overboard on Sunday afternoon and was drowned. It is believed that he committed suicide. Life buoys were thrown out and a boat launched, but nothing could be seen of McLeod. He was 25 years of age and unmarried, and had no relations in the Colony. George Moore, of the Auckland Fire Brigade, fell 20 feet to the bottom of Calliope Dock to-day while working at the ship Wolverine, and is in a precarious condition. During the visit of the vice regal party to the Kapanga mine, Ladies Augusta and Dorothy Boyle, wearing oilskins, went down a shaft to the 800 ft level. Dunedin This Day. The annual report of the Benevolent Institution shows that the number rei lieved during the year was 3201. The number of inmates at the beginning of the year was 247, and at the close 259 ; 135 deaths occurred. The average number of inmates was 261, and the average charge per week 5s 33d per head. The amount disbursed in outdoor relief was £7698, an increase of The total amount expended during the year was £18,840. Napier, This Day. The premises occupied by Mr T. Myers, picture -framer, Emerson street, owned by Mr E. Tuke, were destroyed by fire this morning. The insurance on the building is JE2OO in the Norwich Union office, and on the furniture and stock iJI9O, divided between the Northern and North German offices. Timaru, Jan. 7. Mr F. W. Wake, 8.A., headmaster of the Timaru School for six years past, has resigned owing to ill-health, and relinquishes the profession. Gisborne, January 7. Last night a fire was discovered in the coal bunkers at the new Gisborne Freezing Works, which contained 150 tons coal. Water was poured on for several hours, thus removing all danger.