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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42784, 28 September 1905, Page 2

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[by telegraph—PßESS association.] Palmerston North, This Day. , Mr £ H. Hankins, solicitor, ob-. tained £450 damages for injuries sustained whilst driving a trap over a railway crossing. Grbymouth, This Day. The Brunner Disaster Advisory Board are at loggerheads with the Public Trustee over the treatmen an old man named Parsons. jhoumler a misapprehension “ S !I, 0 hereas accepted a lump sum of others in a similar position ed c ived £25 per annum :for nine yea . Yesterday a letter 7 8 v r^ ve tie Public Trustie dedming to grv effect to certain recommendations by the Board, who thereupon passed a resolution demanding an. enquiry xpto his methods of dealing ™thfunds. Gisborne, This Day. A steamer is reported at East ape with steering gear disab e , name is not known. Auckland, This Day. A. K. Davis, accountant, who faile over 19 years ago* with debts o thousand pounds, and rema ™ ! u .undischarged bankrupt, was * S to notice again through the Official Assignee being approach© .an . to accept £l5O to obtain Davis hij., discharge. Inquiries showed that the bankrupt has inherited revereionay interest worth £2400 from a Sydmp man who advanced him money, had secured assignment, but this J . be set aside for creditors. To-day it was lecided to instruct London so i citor’s to sell equityof interestat once. W. Warren and N. Warren, war housemen at Abbott’s wholesaledrapers, were committed o for stealing goods from the r „ . former made a series o con Svrian The goods were entrusted to a Synan commisson agent for auctic>t ; John Wright, carter, was also com mitted for receiving the goods. _ Gisborne, This Day W. J. Quigley, architect, dropped dead in the street. Blenheim, ibis Day Jno. Lane was killed on co-operative railway works at Seddon to-day y fall of earth. He has a wife and fiv children. . Dmna)lN , This Day. William McLarty, of the Natal Legislature, . and J. A. » managing director of t Iron and Steel Company, are now Uunediu. They have « rolling mills p'ant, once at Onehunga and now at Burnside to be shipped immediately to Zurrfontein, 18 from Johannesburg. Mr Anderson left for America to mane furthe PU Robtert Mathie, _ a yoang man who recently imagmed the City Hotel where he wa3 living, to . fire, was before the Courtt asi a luna- ■ tic. The police reported that he was now all right but was the the drug habit. The Magistrate dis missed him, telling him be bad a narrow escape from being se lunatic asylum. At a meeting of benevolent trustees the remarks of Dr; McGregor m hm report on the Hospitals and Chunk able Aid were strongly cntosed lhe Ohairm m said they cast reflections on the good name and honesty of mem !,ers g Meetings held for the .purpose of electing two members to thu> bq y were referred to as holo-and-cuner meetings, and members were alleged to be elected for their own purposes. Other members spoke m the same strain and urged that the matfr B . st Coast of tile Haavaki Chas. Ross was crushed by a f l earth, narrowly escaping a Mol death. His back was injured and he was carried sixteen mi es roads to the Thames hospital. Wellington, Inis day. TheTurakina, which was to sad for London to day was disoorerrf W la, on fire late yesterday, jnstosthe labourers were S iff A patent fire exangaieta* which forces sulphur tones “ b ?“ I,old was brought into and lato hour the lire seemed trol The hold contained flan wool. •' i : , *'