NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 September 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION.)

Obituary. Thames, This Day. Colonel Fraser, Sergeant at Arms, aged 72 years died to-day. Ho was compelled r,o return home after beginning the session by ill health. He previously had a slight etoko of paralysis which brought on complica.ions. He saw service in the Waikato War, and was Warden for the Thames district. He was elected to Parliament three limes and appointed Sergeant at Arms seven years ago. Wellington, This Day. Henderson, manager of the New South Wales team, cabled to the Few Zealand Rugby Union that W. Shorcknd a member of team died of pneumonia to-day. “ Three Men in a Boat.” CxtaxsTomißOH, Sept. 17. '

The throe men who were blown out to sea in an open boat from Motunau on Sunday turned up at Gore Bay, Cheviot, safely on Sunday in a very exhausted condition. It appears that they were blown out by a very stormy westerly gale and when many miles oil shore the wind went round to the eastward and blow them towards shove, and they eventually landed 23 miles further up the c nut than Motunau. The .Lyttelton harbor board’s tug was out all Monday afeornoo i searching for the boa,i an,i ilatl ft very rou f? h , lima, having great difficulty in returning to Lyttelton against the high wind,

Dunedin Patriotic Fund. Dunedin, September 17. The report of the Patriotic Fund Committee for the past twelve months shows that £3,532 was received from the patriotic fund and £1,517 from the Otago and Southland Contingent Fund, added to by minor remittances from the country districts. The Committee have paid out to August 31st £2,513. All the men who have returned have received every attention, also the returned troopers passing through. Altogether 150 men in addition to those who received a triffa on landing have received financial assistance, 122 having been furnished with an outfit. A balance is left of £8,129, but since closing the accounts £315 has been disbursed.