LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1159, 1 December 1904, Page 3

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS

.—*.— .. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auokland, this day. THE FLOOD AT lUIHU: FEARFUL DAMAGE Tub damage done by tho fresh at Kaihu on Monday evening is groator than was belioved, The foundations of Trounson's mill wero much Btrainod, and heavy timber refuse covered the railway lino from six feet to eight foot high, and ono bridgo was almost completely destroyod. It will bo about a month boioi'o timbor can bo brought from the Knihu bush, Tho ostimated damage to the lino will bo from £BOO to 11000. SHOPS ACT! THE GOVERNMENT URGED TO ENPOEOE IT The Trados and Labour Council has passed a resolution regrotting tho action of tho Premier in suggesting loopholos for tho ovasion of the Shops and Offices Act, and strongly urging upon tho Government to instruct its inspectors to onforco tho carrying out of a law whioh is so beneficial to shop assistants and is in tho interests of tho workers and tho public in general. A further resolution was agreed to asking all unionists and workers to support and deal withthoso tradespeople and shopkeepers who were complying with tho Shops and Offices Act by closing nt tho timo required by the law.

VINE GROWING: A PRACTICAL

LESSON,

At tho fruitgrowsrs' conference Mr Bragato, Government Viticulturist, in the courso of an addross on grnpo culture, said that grapos could bo produced under glass in the colony from September to April. Homo surprise was expressed at this, and Mr Bragato has conditionally accepted an offor from Mr Arch, Wilson, of Birkenhead, to hand over ono ol his vineries for a season to give tho export an opportunity of i?crrionßtrating the truth of the statement, A ROWDY VOLUNTEER '

At the Hamilton Pnlico Court yesterday a young man named Williams was charged with using obseno languago in a railway carriage wbi'o travelling between Auokland and Ngaruawahia, Tho ovidenco showed that members of a company of volunteers wero (ravelling to a rifle match and wero drinking and singing on board tho train, and that when remonstrated with by a guard the accused uiadenseof objectionable language. He was placed under arrest by the senior oflicor at Huntly. Williams pleaded not guilty, but was convicted and lined i'o and costs £1 63, in dofault six weeks'imprisonment, Tho Bench commented on tho prevalence of such ollencos, aud said Williams wbb very lucky to escape v.' h the option of a fino, SUDDEN DEATH ' Mr John Grace, a woll-kunwn newspaper canvasser and son of the lite Mr Peter Graco, contractor, w.is found dead in his bed yostorday. The ciuse of doiith was heart disoase, CORONER'S INQUEST An inquest was held yesterday into the death of Albert John Long, who died after losing consciousness through a fall from his horso while ridir.g in the Northern Wairoa. Tho jury roturnod a votdict of death from a fall causing laceration of tho brain and homorrhage,