NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 July 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Association.] Fatal Boat Accident. Auckland, This Day. Second-class Petty Officer Baker, of H.M.S. Pylades, was drowned to-day. He was securing a boat when the rope slipped dragging him over. He struck the boat, and the tide carried him away, and lie was drowned before assistance could be given. Nelson Poultry Show. Nelson, July 11. The annual show of the Poultry Association opened to-night. The Judge is Mr J, Maude of Melbourne. The exhibits are of an excellent character. The outside prize-takers include P. Bradley (Wellington), two firsts and three seconds and a special tor Wyandottes, one first for Duckwing bantams ; A Alpe (Wellington), four firsts, one second and two specials for Hamburgh ; Falla (Wellington), takes one first, one second for fantails, and a first second and third for owls, a first for magpies, three firsts, three seconds, one special, and V.H.C. for turkeys ; McKenzie (Wellington), takes a first, second and third for owls, and a first and second fer satinettes. Bradley gets a leg in for the trophy for Wyandottes and Pallu a leg in for one of the pigeon trophies. A Bankers’ Protest. Wellington, July 12. Seventy banking officials met to-night to consider the proposals of the Shops and Offices Bill. A committee of eleven was appointed ts arrange for making representations to the Government and obtaining petitions from bank employees in all parts of the colony in protest against the measure in so far ns it affects banks. Major Haddocks gone Home. Major Haddocks, who has completed his five years’ period of service in the Defence Department, left this morning for Auckland en route to America and England. Ho was entertained at dinner Inst night at the Wellington Club and presented with a draft for a substantial sum by the Polo Club. Scarlatina in Wellington. For some weeks past Wellington has been experiencing an epidemic of scarlatina. The epidemic is not peculiar to any particular portion of the city, but seems general. The hospital fever ward has been full for some time. The Mayor has offered a place for a plague hospital at the disposal of the authorities for overflow cases.

Suffocated. Auckland, July 12. The infant daughter of Tricklebank. of Coromandel, was suffocated between its parents by bed clothes. The Shops and Offices Bill. 550 waroshouse employees have signed a petition protesting against the inclusion in the Shops and Offices Bill. Day sittings. Wellington, July 12. One effect of day sittings will, probably, bo to give the Premier a renewed lease of political life. His medical advisers had seriously warned him against continued all-night sittings. A Reprehensible Practice. Christchurch, July 12. At flic inquest on throe children named Day, victims of the lire at Lyttelton, the evidence showed that the mother hud frequently left the children alone in the house, and the neighbors had remonstrated with her. The jury returned the following verdict: — “ Deceased met their death by burning in a house which was set on (Ire, but by whom there is no evidence to show ” ; and they added the following rider : “The jury is of opinion [that leaving children under such circumstances as those disclosed in the evidence is a most reprehensible practice.”