PROVINCIAL NEWS, (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.)
PALMERSTON. With the idea of evoking an intelligent interest among pupils attending the primary and secondary schools in tho object at the recent art exhibition held here, prizes were offored by the executivo for the best essay on tho exhibition. The prize for pupils of the secondary division was won by Katherino Peart of the Palmerston North High School. At an inquest held yesterday on tho body of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Read, which was found dead in bed on Sunday, a verdict in accordance with the medical ovidenoo, that death was duo to asphyxiation, was return.ed. The child was perfectly well at midnight on Saturday, but was cold and had evidently been dead some hours when its parents woko at 8 o'clock,on Sunday morning. Dr. O'Brien advanced the theory that it was seized with convulsions, and turning on its face was smothered.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 October 1908, Page 5
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154PROVINCIAL NEWS, (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.) Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 October 1908, Page 5
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