NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 127, 1 February 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

— A GERMAN BOASTER. ARRESTED AT WAiHI. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WAIHT, Feb. 1. Walter Mcrmeister, a German subject;, aged 25 and unmarried, was arrested cn Saturday. His anti-British remarks led to his arrest. He boasted that while New Zealand wasters condemned Germans, they were afraid to venture from their own country to dgiit. Mormeister is well known in Waihi. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. DUNEDIN, Jan. 31. William Gieeson, married, dropped dead in t!v y. : of the Dunedin foundry this meaning.

BODY FOUND.

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 31

The body of a seaman named Green, who while working on the steamer Wirral at Lyttelton on Tuesday last was drowned through being dragged into the water by a rope which became entangled round the propeller, was recovered last evening. Four men in the launch Ina discovered the body floating near No. 7 wharf. EARTHQUAKE. WELLINGTON, Feb. 1. A sharp shock of earthquake at 9.56 p.m. on Saturday caused some alarm in cue or two theatres .though fortunately no panic occurred. The shake was preceded by a prolonged near. No damage is reported. EDUCATION BOUNDARIES. . DUNEDIN, Feb. 1. The Hon. J Allen says when he returns to Wellington one of his first duties will be- to appoint commissioners to settle the boundaries of education districts. NORTHERN MAORI ELECTION. JUD GE S AP P 01N TE D. WELLINGTON, Feb. 1. Justices Hooking'and Stringer have been appointed to try the Northern Maori election petition. It is very likely they will sip at Whangarei about. ■March 3rd.