DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.'% Wellington, April 22. Private advice' received in Wellington records the death at Nelson ol Head Matenga Waipunaahau, a distinguished chief, and husband of Huria Matenga, New Zealand’s Grace Darling. - Wellington, April 22. The steamer Clan Ogilvie, reported disabled from Farewell Spit, made harbour under her own steam at i p.m. yesterday. The vessel has her intermediate shaft bent. Christchurch, April 21. The body of ,a Christchurch builder who has been missing for a week was found this morning near Amhorley, in a water hole, about three-quarters of a mile away from the ,whare ijvhere he was living while superintending a job,, and where bo was last scon. The body was found floating on the surraco of the water. Ashburton, April 21. Later accounts show that the Mt. Somers train accident was caused through the breaking of an axle on one of the trucks while the train was running at ordinary speed. This caused the truck to “spread,” and threw the. nine following wagons off the rails, and tore up the lino for iIOO yards. The engine driver noticed the trouble and immediately applied the brake and stopped the train, the engine and carriages remaining on the lino. About GO passengers weVo on the train, but the jolting was very light, and they did not .notice the accident until the train stopped. Drags brought them to Ashburton about 1 o’clock, or three and a half hours Into. A relief gang has boon despatched to the scene, and repairs are now lining effected. Wellington, April 22. A conference of gaolers is now sitting in Wellington to consider prison administration. ft was called together by the Hon. J. A. Hanan to discuss with him a number of matters of importance in connection with prison work. The conference is purely departmental and not open to the press, ing effected.