Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 30 January 1906, Page 3

Various Items.

ACCIDENTS. Svdnev, Jan. 29. The steamer Manly cut down au ml-launch, and the owner, Mr 'lemmings, and his wife were rilled. Their four children were rescued. A man named Dobson, while bathing in the Georges river, was eized by a shark, and horribly nangled. He managed to get ..■bore, but succumbed to his injuries. Melbourne, Jan. 28. _ A serious railway collision is eported from Glembrook, fiftyme miles south-east of Melbourne. A. number of persons are injured, several seriously. No details are available at present. LARGE DEATH LIST. Vancouver, Jan. 28. The total number of lives lost in the wreck of the Valencia at Vancouver is a hundred and seven. BUSH FIRES IN GIPPSLAND. Melbourne, Jan. 28, The fires in the interior are now abating, though a fierce one is raging in the back country around Foster, in South Gippsland, which ; f a hot wind springs up will devastate hitherto untouched country. The fires have left miles of blackened country, presenting a scene of desolation. [The Premier on Saturday received the following reply to the colony’s message of sympathy to the Federal Premier Warm thanks for your sympathy with sufferers Gippsland fires. Mr Allen McLean, representative of district, desires me to convey his sincere thanks on behalf of sufferers.— Alfred Deakin.”

COLLISION AT SEA. Brisbane, Jan. 27.

An inquiry has been opened into the collision between the ships Zanita and Coimbatore, off Cape Leeuwin, by which the latter vessel is supposed to have been sunk.

. Two seamen gave it as their opinion that if the lifeboat had been launched the two men seen on the Coimbatore’s boat could have been saved. They granted, however, that unless the captain of the Zanita was sure his vessel was safe it would not have been wise to send the lifeboat away.