TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1916, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

I.I'EH PItESS ASSOCIATION.J BOY THiOWJSED. likatahuitti, Tliis Day. Leonard Victor Jffiteiiell, aged uin j years, whose parents reside at Woodviile, was drowned while bathing 111 the •viakakuhi liver at Uainua. yesterday, rte wein io bathe witli oilier boys, ouo o- whom uiudti plucky attempts at rescue. A mail, unable lo sunn, tneu arrived, and also tried to rescue tlie kill. Ihe body was recovered an hour Idler, ami t,hc police ami doctor tried aruliciai respii alien, but without result. •MA.\ ,sIiUT DKaD. Auckland, This Day. Hugh SitcersniJ, aged '-i'J, a grocer, residing ai Utiruiey Terrace, Mr Eden, went to work lo clean a. gun on Sunday aiieiiiiion. Later a siiol was heard and iSiirei.sou was totiml dead, snot, through ilie heart. lie was a marked man with t>\vo children. SOAKCLTV Ul'' l'OOl) IN TIJIS SOUTH ,SKA INLANDS. Auckland, Tins I)ay . The la! line, Iroin file Islands, reports tbfiiT in consequence oi the prolonged drought hi Tonga, following on the ii lll rica tie, there is a serious shortage of lood. in [lie group. In the nor- ' tie rn part, of avail the natives are ' living on roots and in otner islands in living on cocoa nuts, resulting in sericu-. .sickness. The cnnoiMous at Vava I and Nukualofa arc nut much better. The Tongfin Govern men I has instituted rn■ i works. The pio.-peeis were improving wlieu i lie Talune left as the result. ii. iiie rainlall, and ii was hoped there would be plenty of lood available sliort- ! ly. ' S i 1N I KOI'BUK 111 HOl (• 11 ' uii.n j roc:. j ' I \\ eliington, Tiiis J>ay. j "liie Kaitoa, w 111 s• h w.> Ii l ashore near j 1 IVumiiiti 1.e.! nigh;, v. as leiloated :ll I hour ami a hail i.tlci, and .some '-in pa. ; "ligeis. incluuiag women, were liih.-ti «.u iio.trd again, inn the log came u;• illicit'.- than ever and the Kai'-xi now is standing by waning an opportunity lo inter port. Tiie Union colour Koinata, hou ia Irom West port lo Wellington, went, ashore in tiie vicinity ei Poncarro*..', but is reported lo be partly refloated. I he tug j'cravv iiiti lias gene to her n»sisialiee. At: nine o'clock the log -til! is \ ery thick and several vessels a r e unable lo make . pol l'.