AN INFANT'S BODY POUND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 24 June 1901, Page 5

AN INFANT'S BODY POUND.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

THAMES, Saturday

This evening a man named Edward Walters informed the police that while his two sons and two other young fellows were gumdigging near Neavesville they had found the body of an infant apparently about three months old, buried in a hole. They noticed that the soil had recently been disturbed, and from curiosity they scooped out the loose earth, when they came upon the body wrapped in a shawl. The body appeared to have been buried only a day or two. Detective Miller is making enquiries.

The thermometer registered 24 outside in Ponsonby early this morning. At Newmarket ise an eighth of an inch thick was found »6n a tub of water. - On Saturday night Detectives Grace, McMahon. Mdllvfehy ttnd Bailey raided a place in Chapel-street and discovered a quantity of miscellaneous clothing, with the theft of which they charged four young men n«"ined Jno. Simmond John Worker, Charles Hatton and Solomon Levy. The accused were brought before the Police Court this morning and remanded for a week. Some of the clothing has been identified, but for the rest the police have not yet found the owners. Mr Gresham, Coroner, opened an inquest this morning at the Hospital touching the death of Mrs Ada Elliott, of Awhitu. It appears that Mrs Elliott was confined on the Bth, but did not see a medical man until the 21st when Dr. Scott ordered her removal to the hospital.' An operation was performed upon her there, but she died yesterday. This morning formal evidence of identification was taken and the inquest was then adjourned until July ■ 3rd at the Hospital.

With reference to the London cable stating that the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand has ordered a steamer of 8500 tons for the Aus-tralian-Indian trade; the "Sydney Morning Herald" says: "A steamer has, at intervals, been sent to India, and apparently with sufficient encouragement ,to lea>d up to the building of the steamer mentioned in the cable. At present the Moana, of 4000 tiOns, is "tile largest steamer, in point of tonnage that the company owns, so that, the new vessel will be a distinct jump from that. In the past the British India Company's steamers have carried Indian cargoes to New Zealand, in addition to those of the Union Company, but it might not be too much to predict that should the sailings of the S.I. boats be continued there will be a keen competition with the new U.S.S. boat.. The steamers of the company are of the highest class, for, as the Hon. George | McLean, the chairman of directors, remarked, it was only by paying the itop price ,f or their steamers that suc--oess was assured. , Geo. Fowlds offers boys' tweed overcwats and mackintoshes from 14/6, b«ys' fawn covert coats from 7/6.—Ad. A wonderful lot of men's underclothing "just, purchased by Geo. Fowlds; these',are offered at half usual cost and are splendid value. —Ad.

You can get any pattern or design in ties, mufflers, etc., etc., at Geo. Fowlds1'; the leading emporium for all kinds of neck wear. —Ad.