TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

fI'HU rUESS ASSOCIATION.?

WRECKAGE OKI' CA.STLEPOIXT

GISIK)KNK. This Day

The captain oi' the Kauhai reports sighting yesterday. off Castlepoint lighthouse. submerged wreckage with ;i broken ma.--t attached extending nix feet above tilt' water. The weather was too rough tor a closer inspection to lie made. Captain Mender considers the wreckage a menace

to shipping

A IH)( TOII'S DEATH

El/I'll AM, This Day

Absolute gloom ha.s been cast over the liltlwuii (iistrict liy the sad death of Dr. (1. A. tin prison vesterday morning. About a fortnight ago lie attended a child patient and operated for acute abscess on -he neck. 'When bandaging the wound he slightly pricked the thumb of his left hand v itli a pin that i ad been used lor fastening a bandage. A lew days later symptoms of blood poisoning manifested themselves. They increased with alarming rapidity. and a week ago the arm was amputated. Since then Or. Morrison hats been lying in a critical condi-

Lion, causing great anxiety to his medical attendants. He passed away yesterday morning; siged 17 years. He was practising in this district nearly 20 years and was greatly esteemed by the people.

UJCKLAXD AND ISLAX_I) NEWS

AUCKLAND. This Day. Till' body ol Henry •' married mail, -Ki, w.iis found beside the railway Lrack at New Lynn yesterday. He had evidently fallen off the 11 o'clock train on Saturday Ho had been dead some

hours when picked up

The Tul'ua, which arrived here from the Islands yesterday, brought news of a severe hurricane which riwept down on the Tonga 11 group .111 10th February, with scarcely three minutes' warning. The hurricane, which was accompanied by torrential rain, burst upon Nukualofa. The American schooner Horealis had arrived a few days previously from the Columbia river with a cargo of lumber. The captain and ten men | were aboard, and after making several unsuccessful attempts to securely moor the vessel, they attempted to take her out of the harbour. No sooner had the ropes been loosened than the vessel was lifted up by tor- | rifle sens and swept on to the reef. Another mountainous sea again lifted the vessel up and drove her back against the wharf. The impact was sufficient to smash into atoms several feet of the ferro-concrete structure, and the stern of the vessel for twelve feet was broken clean away. Just as the vessel was being lifted by another big sea the crew sprang on \o the wharf. The schooner was then driven on to the reef, and later on | took fire and wins burned to the wa- | tpr's edge. T?y daylight nothing could be seen of the schooner, and •he subsequently broke up.

The proprietary of the King's Theatre wishes to apologise through the Chronicle to its many patrons for the poor light at Saturday's show, and also for the necessarily abbreviated programme then given. The trouble arose through the Horough water supply being much below normal pressure, for which reason it failed to drive the water motor. The two pictures that were not shown on Saturday will be displayed as "extras" this evening. They are entitled "The. Freshet" and "Speed Demons."

Now 13 tile tftnb to jtet Araeante lead for fruit-spraying. I nave Swifts in l!b., 21b., and 101b. iars. Call in and get quotations for quantities- up to 1001b. kegs. F.O. Rej)inprton, Cfcemlrt