TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 382, 25 February 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Feilding, February 23

The whole district between Rangiwahia and Kawhutau is being swept by fires. Rangiwahiu township is in danger, and there is a serious shortage of water everywhere. Fences have been destroyed in all directions, and stock are wandering at large. Much valuable scenery has been destroyed. The strenuous efforts of settlers and neighbours have saved the homesteads so far in most cases, but the end is not yet in sight. Gisborne, February 23.

Constable Johr Thomas Irwin was to-day fined £1 and costs £9, in default seven days’ imprisonment, for using undue violence in removing from an hotel a drunken man. The magistrate characterised defendant’s action in strong terms. Masterton, February 23. ■ The bee-keeping industry is in a thriving condition, and it is anticipated that the quantity of honey exported this season will be in excess of previous years. : Dunedin, February 20. Wm. Bennett, for 25 years headmaster of the Macandrew Road School, was killed by a tram tonight. Wellington, February 21. A fall of earth took place this afternoon in a drive in the hill at Ngahauranga, where men were working on the Hutt-Wellington railway duplication works. Two men were buried in the drive for half an hour. They were rescued unhurt.

Auckland, February 22.

The body of an unknown man was found in the harbour this morning. It had evidently been in the water only a few hours. Christchurch, February 23. Mr S. R. Merrett, shops manager of the Christchurch Meat Company was seriously injured last night in a collision between a motorcar and a tramcar on the Lincoln Road. Mr Merrett received a fractured skull and up to 5 o’clock this afternoon bad not regained consciousness.