----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrival - Aug. 24 - Ohau,s.s., from Southern ports. Departure - Aug. 24 - Kiwi, s.s., for Wellington via coast stations. Aug. 25 - Te Kapu, s.s., for Wairoa. Wiremu Hoera RAUTU, chief of the Ngatitu and Papauma hapus, died at Herbertville on Sunday night, from typhoid fever. He was a very popular young man, and highly respected by both Maoris and Europeans. It is feared that a little girl named Kate TRAVERS has met with an untimely end. Her parents live at the southern end of the Marine-parade, near the residence of Mr FRAME. Yesterday afternoon one of Mr FRAME's children went to Mrs TRAVERS' house, and asked if her two little ones could go out. A nurse girl was in charge of Mr FRAME's children, and Mrs TRAVERS, thinking her children would be quite safe with the nurse girl, allowed them to go. One of them was four years of age, and the other, the missing one, not quite eighteen months old, and just able to toddle about. About half an hour afterwards the elder one returned with her little sister's hat, which she had found on the roadway, and said that "Katie was gone away." Inquiries were at once set on foot, when it transpired that all the other children had been down on the beach playing with the shingle, but they said that the baby had not been there. The nurse girl also said that the little thing had not been on the beach, but had been left playing on the road. It was very evident, however, that none of the children had any clear idea of what had become of the missing one....! ....Should it prove, by any chance, that the little thing has been found straying, and has been sheltered for the night, it is hoped that the fact will be made known to the sorrowing parents at once, or to the police..... Waipawa - Miss ARROW resumed duty yesterday as head mistress of Kaikora school. Mr MATHESON, of the Bank of New Zealand, is again going away on sick leave,and a temporary successor is coming from Wellington. Miss DILLON met with an unusual accident yesterday, when by some means a needle pierced her hand right right into the bone. Yesterday Dr. MIRBACH operated on the hand for some time, but was unable to get the needle out, and it was determined to let it alone for the present.