GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 144, 27 September 1910, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

\ CLERK ARRESTED. Per Piess Association AUCKLAND Sept. 26. ; A young man named Gilbert Scott was arrested yesterday on a charge of having stolen £7 ss, the property of the Bruce County Council, Otago, while employed as clerk by the cxmncil. DUNEDIN, Sept. 26. Besides Scott, arrested at Auckland, Arthur Spencer Brown, his successor aa treasurer to Bruce County Council, has been arrested at Timaru. It is upderstood that in each case the defalcations amount to some five or six hundred pounds. A ROUGH PASSAGE. AUCKLAND, Sept. 26. The steamer Cornwall has arrived from Liverpool via Capetown and Wilson's Promontory (Australia). For. several days the wind blew with hurricane force and huge seas broke on board, doing, considerable damage. One tremendous smashed the gratings, flooded the butcher's shot and bakehouse, and 6tove in two planks of one lifeboat. A steerage passenger; was struck by a big sea and had his shoulder dislocated through being.driven against the ship's railing. The Cornwall has over 100 emigrants for various'parts of the Dominion. THE'KETCH FELICITY;. , , WELLINGTON. Sept. Thft ketch Felidtv, which was wrecked at Wellington Heads a fortftigfctago, was brbken up by a northerly swell 6n Satnfllay, night. Most of tfcejMat a»a tackle hps. been secured by .W. .Pricey: wreck, before the