SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 166, 12 July 1912, Page 2

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HALL) AND SHOP DESTROYED!. WELLINGTON. Thursday. Between otic and two o'clock this morning the Manakau Town Hall and a store adjoining were destroyed by fire, together with a motor car. The whole property belonged to T. Beva-n, and wan insured as follows: Hall £370, shop £170, car £300. The shop was occupied by R. Gleeson. STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATH. GTSBORNE, this day. An inquest was held to-day on the body of Joseph Denton, an old man-o'-warsman, who died suddenly at Poriawa. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from a foreign body, probably a piece of a decayed tooth or a shell from the beach, double the size of a pin's head, which had lodged in his right lung, causing a stoppage of the respiratory process. The jury expressed the opinion that the foreign mutter was probably inhaled while deceased was employed on -a stone crusher. ANTI-MILITARISTS PUNISHED. STRATFORD, this day. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, for failing to take the oath and refusing to attend an annual training camp, two Territorials on the first count were fined ■if, provided they took the oath within seven days, and on the second count £1 and £1 10,'. the increase in the one case being due to the fait that the youth admitted having laughed at Territorials doing their dntv, and urged others not to attend parades. i WANGANUI, this day. C. E. Hansen, for breaking and entering, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and two years' reformative treatment.