DUNEDIN NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 149, 23 June 1894, Page 2

DUNEDIN NOTES.

FEMALE FORESTERS

A SUICIDE

ALLEGED BURGLARY

(BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Uonedin, this day. Threh youths, Eugene Desarthe, John Austin, nnd John Hayes, were committed for trial today on charges of housebreaking. About 40 women were initiated lasb night in bhe Foresters' Court for women. At the inquest on Charles Henderson, Crown tenant ab Catling, the evidence showed that he had been queer tor some time, and for the pant two months had refused to work. The verdict was " Suicide while temporarily insane." Deceased baa a wife in Scotland. Detectives Henderson and McGrath day arrested bwo men named Donald and Herbert Jonea on a charge of burglary ab C. Johnson's drapery shop. Donald, or Daniel, was some years ago in the. employ of Johnson, bub he has been absent for some time in Melbourne. Herbert is believed to have come from Melbourne with bis namesake some months ago. Donald was wearing trousers andja hao stolen from the shop, and in a small house occupied by Herberb the detectives found' some of the goods taken. The man is a recent arrival from Melbourne. Some of the stolen property was in his possession. At the Charitable Aid Board Mr J. Green, M.H.R., eaid so far as his experience as an old settler went, he bad no hesitation in saying that up his way there were more callers for food and persons asking for relief than any other time that he could remember, and most ot those who thus sought aid looked ab if they wanted ib.