SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 122, 24 May 1909, Page 3

SOUTHERN NEWS.

i ; (Bj Telegraph.—Own Corresponded.) CHILD DROWNED IN A WELL. TAIHAPE, Saturday. ! A three-year-old child named Violet! J Foster, the daughter of a labourer, was drowned in a well yesterday. .She had i only been missed five minutes, and when • she was. found life was not extinct, but ! the child died before a doctor arrived. i PAILMERSTON ITEMS. \ ': PALMERSTOX XORTH, this day. ', The heat in Palmereton North yester- ! day was intense for May, and was accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain > in the afternoon, which lasted fully an hour. So far an exceptionally mild winter has been experienced, and stock is looking well, grass being abundant. A 5 competition, under the Ladies' Golf ' Union, "will be held on Monday, May j 31, simultaneously throughout Xew Zea- . land for the..CpjFOttation, Medal. It is 1 open to all players with L.G.U. handicaps j not exceeding the 25 limit. No postponements will 'be allowed. • A PATHETIC FAREWELL. ' HASTINGS, this day. An old-age pensioner named Frederick i Thomas Fan-, 60 years, a carpenter, ' disappeared on Friday, and has not been 1 heard of since. He left a note:—"Feel r deserted by everyone, and I am going I away anywhere." The police accept it j as a case of suicide, as Farr had preI viously made an attempt on hie life. A DYNAMITE CAP. CARTERTOX, this day. ' Mrs. W. Harris, Hautotara, Martinborough, met with a serious accident. • She threw gome old papers into the fire, amongst which, unknown to her, was a. j dynamite ca,p. It exploded, eeveily in- ; juring her left thigh. 1 SENT BACK. ' INTVERCARGILL, this day. 5 Two extradition orders were" granted I by Mr. Cruickshank, S.M., to-day, - against Alfred J. Mills, charged with ; passing valueless cheques at Launceston, and Joseph Savage, wife desertion at : Beaconsfield; Prisoners leave by the 1 Warrimoo to-day.