DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1916, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

A BARQUE ASHORE. •By Telegraph —Press Association. Invereargill, September 14. • The barque Antiopc stranded at the Bluff harbor at 0 o'clock to-night. She was bonnd from Hobart to Dunedin with timber and scrap iron, and -when scaring Xew Zealand encountered a hurricane, which stripped her of her sails. She hoisted a distress signal for a tug, and was sighted at 4 p.m. The Harbor Board's tug managed to get a line aboard, -though it was too rough to pilot her. Coming up the channel at halftide a squall caught the Antiope and swung her out of the channel, and she was stranded in-shore from the lightship. An attempt will be made to get her off at high tide. APPROPRIATING SALVAGE. Napier, September 14. . To-day a fisherman was arrested on a charge of offeriug for sale bicycle tubes taken from a case ex the Tongariro's I'argo found floating at sea. HEAVY FINE FOR DISLOYAL | STATEMENTS. Wellington, Sept. 15. .Tames Henry Rowe was charged! in the Magistrate's Court with having.made use of disloyal words. Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. O'Regan pleaded foi leniency on the ground of defendant's previous good character. The Magistrate. said this rather aggravated the -offence. He fined defendant JC2S, but afterwards reduced the penalty to £lO oi one month. ' HOME FREIGHTS INCREASED iDunedin, Sept. 14. The prospective innccase in shipping freight? will be confined t( the direct oversea trade homeward, and will not be experienced in the inter-colonial and coastal shipping, uoi in respect to those vessels which trade between New Zealand and eastern Pacific ports. DROWNED IN DRAIN. Foxton, Sept. 15. Lewis Wilson, married, aged about 40 years, was found drowned in a drain in the Avenue this morning. He 'had been missing since Wednesday night. About two feet of water was jn the drain, and it is supposed that 'he fell into the drain in the dark, striking his head on the bottom, as the temple it bruised. The body mas found by a son of deceased. An inquest will be held to-morrow.