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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 6, 8 January 1916, Page 6

Wishful has been scratched for the Wellington Cup and Telegraph Handicap. ; : . .

A farmer named Robert ■ Alexander v Walker, aged 58, committed suicide by taking poison at Paparimu, about fifteen miles from Hunua, on Wednesday morning. The deceased returned from a visit to Auckland on Tuesday evening and went out to a farm at Paparimu, where his wife and his son and daughter lived. He arose at. 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and shortly afterwards displayed a packet of poison before his. family, at the same time exclaiming, "I have done it; that's the end of the; penny section." , The deceased expired within half an hour At the inquest medical testimony was given that death was due to hemorrhage of the lungs, brought about by the poison. A verdict that death was due to self-administered poison was returned. A report on the activity of the geysers at Whakarewarewa during December states :—Potato gave 63 displays, always accompanied by the Prince of Wales's Feathers and the Cauldron. Waikorohihi gave 80 displays, 70 o£ which were short ones. Kereru and Papa-kura Geysers were much as usual. In the report for June last the probability of 1000 displays by Pohutu for the year was mentioned. Pohutu, when the report was written, was giving the 993 rd display, all of which were in.daylight, except .62. There stiE remain 12£ days for the remaining seven dis- | plays.- ' ' I It was erroneously stated yesterday in connection with land being.made available for soldiers that a portion of the Benmore Estate was to be made available in 12,000 acre lots. The size of the holdings is to be 1200 acres. . Thomas Phelan, 54 years of ago, who resided in Abel Smith-etreet, expired suddenly while being conveyed in a cab to the Hospital yesterday. ;As he was'suffering from dropsy, and the medical man who had attended him is prepared to give a certificate as to the cause of death, an inquest will not be necessary : Family Physician: I am afraid, Mrs. Gaybird, your husband cannot last much longer. Tho trouble with your husband, madam, is that ho has overdrawn his account at tho bank of vitality. Mrs. Gaybird: I felt sure ho was deceiving me about something:. Doctor, I give you my word, I n««<"" Immw hr. had mt account