INLAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 176, 30 March 1915, Page 2

INLAND NEWS.

GERMAN CLAIMS. AMSTERDAM, March 28. A Gorman official report admits the capture, and says; We are in possession of the slopes beyond. The Russians, in attempting to raid Tilsit were : defeated with heavy losses. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. ■ A CHAUFFEUR KILLED. BLENHEIM, This Day. Fred Peterson, a chaffenr, while drivirjg a party IT cm Havelock early on Sunday morning’, collided with abridge at Flat Crock. The occupants were thrown into the creek and were uninjured. Petersen struck the railing bridjge and sustained terrible internal injury. He was removed to the hospital where he succumbed this morning. He was a married man, and loave s a wife and child. FIRE AT KiLBIHNIE. TWO HOUSES DESTROYED. WELLINGTON, This Day. Two scven-rocmed houses at Kir birnie, owned by Messrs Morris and occupied by J. Goodwin, and M. Nasmith, were dvtroyed by fire early tliL morning. This brigade did not receive the alarm (ill half an hour after Hr; outbreak. Mrs Goodwin, in escaping from an upstairs window, broke her Rag. All contents oi both houses were lost. The insurances are; Buildings. £450 each in the State Office; Goodwin’s .furniture, £390 in the London and Lancashire. Nasmith was unin ♦.tired.