DOMINION NEWS,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2190, 14 May 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS,

(.Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Alay 13. Inspector Cullen has received a telegram from the constable at illa■wono reporting tlio death of an «mo-von-yoar-old boy named Alattora Maitin Noird who was kicked by a horse at Waimamaku (Hokianga) oil Alondivy. The lad died in tlio 'Rawono iiospitn.l yesterday. NEW PLYMOUTH, Alay 13. A. six-roomed lwuse at Spotewooil settlement, owned and occupied by Air Lovegrovo, a painter, was burned to the ground to-night owing to a lamp bursting. Further particulars aro not available. ■ Two crooks went through tho Stratford and Commercial hotel;; at ’Stratford last night. They wero seen at each plnco and chased, but eventually eluded the police, one minus a bat and boots. A sum of money and a gold watch wero stolon from rooms while tho occunaiits woro asleep. NAPIER, May 13.

John Tacoy, aged 73, a well-known resident of Taradalo and formerly road overseer for the Hawke’s Bay County Council, was found dead this morning on a sofa at a neighbor's bouse whoro he had stayed for the night. At tho Hastings police courts this morning, an elderly man named Frederick Thomas Farr was brought up charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking poison. He was remanded till (Saturday.

Alice Logan, aged about 15. third daughter of Geo. Logan of Tannnnii, received injuries to her' head through being thrown out of a trap at Waipawa and died about two hours later.

A telegram was received by Inspector AlacDonell to-day stating that the prisoner Easton convicted of attempted robbery under arms, who eseapod from tiie Waiotapu tree-planting camp, had been re-captured by Constable Ryan, of Taupo, at Rangitaki. DANNEVfiRiKE, Alav 13.

A poll taken at Dannovirke today for the purpose of fixing the weekly half-holiday resulted in 121 votes being cast for Wednesday and 27 against. WELLINGTON, Alay 13.

The ratepayers of the Wadestown portion of Wellington city voted .today on three alternative, tram routes. 'Tile route favored by tlio majority is 93 chains long and the estimated cost of the scheme is £25,000. The Blackball Coal Company Ltd. lias sold its steam collier Pareora to the Southern Collieries Association of New South Wales. Capt. Downie arrived from Sydney yesterday to take delivery of the vessel for" her now owners. The Pareora, which was formerly named The Breeze, was built in 1896. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 13. A conference of head teachers of secondary schools opened this evening, when Air. C. E. Bevan-Brown (headmaster of the Boys’ High School) was elected president. Papers were read by Air. G. Hogben, InspectorGeneral of Schools, on observations on his trip Home last year, and Air. J. W. Tibbs, of tho Auckland Grammar School, on some criticisms of tho present educational system. WESTPORT, May 13.

Olaf Halinan and Andrew Anderson, seamen off the Westport Coal Company’s s.s. Canopus, were tonight arrested on a (warrant charging' them with the murder of Earnest John Burke, of Reefton, found dead last week in McLaughlin’s stables.