TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 5

TELEGRAMS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) FiRE ON STEAMER, i INVEROAItGILL, Last Night.

; •Shortly after 10.30 o'clock to-night, • a lire was discovered in the :No. 1 shelter deck of the *.s. Nairnshire. I The. ship's officers. assisted by some of the crew and waterside workers, got "a *ose to work, and after half an hour's work, the fire was put out. j It was discovered that some tow had taken fire, hut the extent of the damage done by the • fire "and water is not at present known-. WOOL SALES. INYERCARGILL. Last Night. The entry for the wool sale on Friday consists of ] 2,860 '.bales, comI pared with 15,083 in January, 1912. The decrease is due to the quantities' , sent to the northern sales, and to the increased private buying. SOUTHERN WEATHER. TIMARU. Last Night. The few successive hot 'days have ! resulted in the. ripening of the crops too rapidly, and farmers are anxious fona change. It is stated that more hay is being made this season than for many years past. SHOCKING ARDENT. TJMAIIU; Last Night. John Mann, employed,-on' Mr J. Bray's farm at Orieklewood. was doing something to a binder, when 4 ' horses bolted, dragging him under the machine for. a long V was terribly cut about the legs air! i hody. One leg had to be amputate-!. He was shortly to be bis fiancee being on her way out from England. |

OVERSEAS CLUB

TIMARU, Last Night.

Mr Evelyn Wrench, organiser f or the Overseas Club, addressed a meeting here to-day, Mr J. Craigie, M.P.: presiding. It was decided to convene a general meeting with a view t< forming a branch for Timaru.

WOMAN SUICIDES. CHRISTCHUaOH, Last Night

A married woman named Laurina Lamb, aged 47, was found hanging in a ball of her residence at Sydenham this afternoon, quite dead. At the inquest* a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.

SHOOTING CASE

AUCKLAND,. Last Night.

Kathleen Somerville Ryan was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having attempted to murder William James Colwell, dentist, by shooting at him with a revolver. V■,.? > 'oiL-BORINC.

GISBOR.NE, Last Night

With the new rotary-plant recently imported from the United States, the N.Z. Oilfields bore at Waihirere has been sunk, to a, depth of 1300 feet, and indications are.now fairlv favourable for the striking of a good oil strata.,

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, Last Night

A jnan whose name is believed t be Riley fell down. the hold of the .steamer Rakanoa and sustained seri-ous-injuries to the head. Ho was removed to the hospital in a serious condition.