TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

New Plymouth, Tuesday.

in connection with the burglary at the Coronation Hotel, Eltham, on Sunday night, Fred Fontanella, porter at the hotel, has been arrested on suspicion and remanded. A sum ■of money corresponding with that missing was found in his box. The accused claims that it is his own.

Gisborne, Tuesday

One of the largest sales of land that has been effected on the East Coast is reported, Mr John Clark having purchased from Messrs Muir Findlay and Co., Wellington, the Waipaoa estate o£ 34,000 acres, together with 30,000 sheep, 1500 head of cattle, and all the houses and station plant. Hokitika, Tuesday.

A horse attached to a baker’s cart at Ross bolted to day. The driver was thrown out and had his leg broken, and another occupant receiving slight injuries. An old-age pensioner, James Simpson, in trying to stop the horse, was knocked down, receiving fatal injuries. Nelson, Tuesday.

At the inquest on Mr W. A. Shain, of the Public Works Department, who was foufid dead in his office, medical evidence showed that he must have died a week ago from asphyxia, the result of burying his face in his waistcoat during an epileptic fit. A verdict was returned accordingly, A lad named Kromer, aged 14, the son of a settler, was killed at Central Moutere yesterday, being thrown from a cart he was driving, the wheel passing over his body. Christchurch, Tuesday,

A young man named David Dulley, a draper’s assistant at Ashburton, was drowned in the Waimakariri river near Belfast to-day while bathing. Dunedin, Tuesday.

At the City Police Court to-day, a single woman, Mary Kearney, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering her female child on Dec. nth. The medical evidence showed that the child had breathed. Lionel Clements, (wo years of age, is missing from his home at Kaitangata. Footprints to the river lead to the supposition that the child has been drowned.

Valdy Bishop, a farm hand was drowned while bathing in a lagoon near Balclutha to-day. Thomas Ritchie, labourer, about 50 years, employed on the new dock at Port Chalmers, received sunstroke yesterday, and died in the Hospital in the evening. He leaves a wife and family.