SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 234, 30 September 1908, Page 3

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) MATERNITY HOSPITAL. DUNEDIN, this day. It is three years to-day since the late Mr. Seddon opened St. Helens Maternity Hospital in Dunedin. The number of births in the institution during the above period has been 549, and deaths have averaged only about one per cent., Only one mother has died during the three years, and this death was due to organic trouble apart, from child-bearing. Fortyone women have gone back for their second confinement, and one has Ixren three times a patient. Eight nurses are now in training, and sixty-six cases are being treated at patients' own homes.

RAILWAY STATION ROBBERY.

HOKITIKA, tlu's day. The charge against Todd and Hecne.n, alias Halley. for robbery from the Otira railway station, is now proceeding, and will probably last two or thTcc days, there being a large number of witnesses.

NO-LICENSE AND LIQUOR. | I

INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. Richard Whittingham, one of the local brewers, was acquitted to-day on a charge of having intentionally failed to make correct returns of beer sold for consumption, and of having made false entries of liquor so sold.

SUPPOSED PTOMAINE POISONING.

ASHBURTON, this day. The two-year-old son of Mr Frank Potter died suddenly last evening, after a short illness. Indications point to death having been due to ptomaine poisoning after eating tinned fruit.

SERIOUS TRAP ACCIDENT.

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Mrs Kate McGinnity was knocked down by a trap at Newtown to-day. A wheel wont over her neck, while several of her ribs were broken. She is in a serious condition.