General Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3642, 24 April 1906, Page 3

General Items.

Sydney, April 22. An Afghan called at the. Raeburn station, in the Goulburn district, and asked for food. He said : “ I want to die. I think a policeman will get me.” He then went away some distance, built a huge fire, and, with the aid of a long pole vaulted amidst the flames and perished.

A sentence of death has been recorded, with a recommendation to mercy, in the case of the boy Hembray, who shot a man named Munroe, with intent to murder in order to get possession of a bicycle. Paris, April 22. An explosion occurred aboard the French gunnery instruction ship La Couroune during target practice at Hyeres, in the south of France. Three persons were killed and twenty two injured, five of whom are expected to succumb.

London, April 22. The prospectus of the New Zealand Iron and Steel Company, of Parapara, has been issued. The capital of the company is ,£650,000. Mr J, H. Witheford, of Auckland, states that the subscription of the capital is assured if the Government will suspend the clause in the Mining Act giving the Government right of preemption.

Ah increase is being made in the British garrison in Egypt owing to unrest caused by Turkey (which recently occupied a position on the Sinai peninsula) and by Germany. A fire practically gutted the block occupied by Kurtz and Harper, clothing manufacturers; Hodgson and Company, timber merchants; Laing and Company, general merchants. AH the premises were heavily stocked. The “Truth” office was also gutted.