GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 10 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Per Press Association. Auckland, Monday. . As an electric tram was ascending Wellcsley-street on Saturday evening, Humes suddenly burst out inside the car. The liiotorinan had one arm badly scorched. He was thrown off the platform of the car. The shock to tiie passengers was considerable. The seats suddenly became alive. The car was lit up with Hashing blue lights emitted from all the ironwork. The controller blew out and the fuel-box caught lire. Some half-dozen passengers jumped out. The tram was running back on the down grade at a good speed when an ex-motorinan jumped aboard, pulled the trolley-pole oil the wire, and stopped the car.

Wellington, Monday. The new legislation affecting hotelkeepers contained in the Shops and Offices Amendment Act of last session is being brought into operation. The Labor Department is issuing circulars to all hotelkeepers drawing their attention to the fact that each of their employees must now receive a half-holiday on one day of the week. Another section provides that shopkeepers who sell tobacco, cigarettes, etc., must observe the same closing hours as ordinary tobacconists, and they are now being furnished with printed notices to that effect. These are to be hung up in the shops for general information. Oauiaru, Monday. At the Magistrate's Court this morning David Boland, ex-licensee of the Papakaio Hotel, which has been closed since no-license was carried, was fined £2O and costs for keeping liquor for sale within a no-license district. Palmerston North, Monday. At the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court to-day a charge of manslaughter was brought against Emmanuel White. Ho was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. White gave two schoolgirls a ride on his horse, which, it is alleged, broke into a sharp canter and threw them on the road. Ono

of the girls, Lucy Goldfinch, had her skull fractured and died. The case against White rested on the contention that he contributed towards the girl's death by failing to take proper precautions for her safety. Asfiburton, Monday. The body of a man named George Cochrane was found in an advanced

stage of decomposition in a hut at Elgin, Wakan ui. The ease is apparently one of suicide, as a gun containing a discharged cartridge was found lying with the muzzle pointing towards the body and a. box of the same kind of cartridges was in the hut. Deceased waa a single man HO years of age. He had lived all Ills life in Wakanui district. His relatives reside in the vicinity. Masterton, Monday. A coal expert, Sir. R. H. Perry, visited the Mnuriceville coal deposits on Saturday. He considers the prospects of the iield highly encouraging. Samples obtained of the best coal in the new seam I ho considers equal to Coalbrookdale. He

is satisfied that little difficulty will be experienced in finding tjie necessary capital to develop tbo resources. The coal hitherto obtained has generally [ been considered of indifferent quality and little value. Tlie expert considers it equal, if not superior, to Mokau. The long-continued absence of rain is acutely felt by fanners. Grain crops I arc stunted and growth has almost waned. Unless the drought Is relieved before long the consequences will be serious. »

Dargaville, Monday. Mr. A. E. Harding, who was defeated at hirtt general election by six votes, announces himself a candidate for the Kaipara seat at next Parliamentary election.