NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 56, 25 February 1908, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

DKATH FKO.U LOCKJAW. Per Press Association. Pahnerstou N., Momliiy. Ihe death is announced of John Samuel lluoii, one of the pioneers of the .Mauawatu. Deceased trod on a rusty taiius .el ill and death took place at au early hour this luoniing. Al.kl-'.i.l.D ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Wairoii. Monday. A man named Madiiu. n visitor lo Lake House. Waikai-emoaiia. attempted lo commit siii.-ide Ihi- uioruiiur by euitinir his throat. lie is in a critical .tale. Medical aid lias been despatched. -Maehiii is said lo be from Ilaslin^;-. Wairoa. Later. Maehin is dead. iiiiili-:-tt-:achi'N'(! ix schumi.s. Wanganiii. Monday. At the Supreme Courl this liioini'i;.' Ihe case was heard ill which Ihe Wa-

li-anni School Committee applied for Pll injunction against the Education Hoard to resirnin the Hoard from refusiujr to allow lie- committee to regulate the

-,-i I hour, so as lo admit of llible iu-.iru.-iioii in or.liiurv school time. The cDiiimittee had li-osl hours providing lor iii-truelion during school time, but the Hoard had refused to sanction the arrangement..

Mr. .lusliii; Cooper decided thai the committee had no power to liv the hours. That matter rested with llie Hoard and the committee was under the lloaid's authority. .His Honor advi.-r-l the parties interested jo come to a mutual agreement a, had been done ill N'cl.oll. DIMINUTION OF MILK SUPPLY. Cambridge, Monday. j As a re-ult of the drought, IluI amount paid out to suppliers during the past, month by the local dairy company was ,17011 less than for the corresponding period of last year. There are indication-, now that the drought is breaking up. A SANATORIUM IN DANGER. Cambridge. Monday. Bush tires at Mangakoua ranges caused considerable alarm at the Cambridge 1 Sanatorium. The patients and the lire brigade worked bard and checked the spread of the flames.

QUARTZ MINING AT REEFTOX.

Reefton, l-'cbniavy -iMining i- on the up-grade. The Nl ' w lister, ;i local company, struck good •Mihl-lx-ariiiSf c|tiartz. and subsequently -tone two (oft wide " ll,t wil ' l - ' Jl 'e Colli™ Flece mi""'- l>flongin<r to the Consolidated ,; oldlields. was partially ~|,wc,l Millie time ago pending deVell'O mom~- 'l'lit; manager lias struck what i- reported to lie an exceptionally ridi block of stone, two feet wide, in So. ', I level. IN'OEXDIAIUKS AT YVOiiK. Xiniaiit, Monday. Two attempts lo destroy a biiihiiuj,' by lire was di-cmered lii'ix; at an early In mi- yesterday morning. Shortly »fwr on Saturday a lire composed uf chip- of wood and hits of stocking and coal was found at the loot of long tint tiers reared against the outer wall of ] the Shaw. Sawll. ami Albion Company's wool stove. 11l the store tlieiv were 2XIO bales of wool. Mad the tire been left 11 few minutes longer the whole store niii-t have gone. The. other liro \ui- di-cowrcd (Jioilt the .-amc lime outside Dalgcly and Comiiauy's business preniist's. In this ease empty easks Jnul, with the aid id' small wood and paper, been lighted ngain-t tin- wall of a wooden building in which kerosene and sheep clip were stored. This was also discovered as the lire was getting a good I hold.

WKSTI.AXirs TROSPKCTS. llokilika. Mondav. The Minister for Lauds, lion. R. Mc.Vab. concluded his visit to West land to-day, having returned from South We-i'land la-t night. He considers the prospect- of South We.-tland will be satisfactovv a- the railway communication is bettered. The bridge over the big Wanganuj river i-. he slates, the most' urgent work at present. i'ntil it; is completed, any dairying undertaking on the large Waiiganui Hat cannot -iiecced. We-tland district slmnM prove a substantial feeder fo the railway when through communication with Canlcrhiirv i- made. Til-lures arc in -ploudid condition, in marked contia-t to tlu>-c in the Xorlh 1.-land. With railway cominnnicilion. Ihe Minister as-erls' large numbers of settlers will pour inlo tiio di-lrici. It- fiitlive a- an agricultural cenire is n-surecl. The Minister thinks it may b 0 necessary In extend Ihe railway In Ho-s.