Telegraphic.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43117, 23 July 1907, Page 2

Telegraphic.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, This Day. Appeal Court suspended Frederick Fuller, barrister, Christchurch, for six months and ordered him to pay ten guineas costs for failing to pay over £l4 12s to a client, and not keeping a trust account of money since returned.

MASTERTON, This Day. A fire on Sunday morning gutted the premises of Walker and Thomas boot shop, Young, tobacconist, Rebay restaurant and provision merchant, and damaged upstairs of Maltbys’ shooting gallery. Destroyed buildings valued at £2OOO, insured for £IOBO, and insurance on property was £ISOO. Some of the occupants had difficulty in escaping. WESTPORT, This Day. The heavv.gale did great damage throughout the district. The Trotting Club’s grandstand was unroofed and bush fires rage at Seddonvill, the Masonic hall caught but was extinguished.

OAMARU, This Day. In the charge against White for selling liquor, the Magistrate said he believed the locker system- was merely a blind to enable the law To be broken with impunity, and inr fiicted a fine of £SO and costs 6s 9d. Notice of appeal was given. DUNEDIN, This Day. • Eileen Emma Barton, seven week’s old, was found dead in bed on her mother’s arm, at Musselburgh. Tb§ child was apparently smothered by the mother during the night. Obituary : H. B. Smith of Smith and Smith, the well-known baratone singer, and senior member of the firm. Another brother died in London after an operation two weeks ago.

AUCKLAND, This DayA Harbour Board that there were three men on the wrecked Flora when she - left for Waiheke last week, but his identity is unknown. . A telegram from Mongonui reports that the schooner Isabel Dufranne was beached on Saturday Ahipira and Reef Point. All hands are safe and the vessel is in a fair position if the weather keeps fine. The five-months-old child of Mrs William Smith was' found dead in bed alongside its mother on Monday morning. An inquest is proceeding.