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Evening Star, Issue 21714, 8 May 1934, Page 12

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LARWOOD'S SWOLLEN EOOT. ; ; LONDON, May 7. —The swelling of Larwood's loot 0 under tho loot, and not under the big toe. Larwood believes that he strained his foot, and that the swelling is not connected with the former trouble. - THE FIRE TRAGEDY. Effic Leighton Smale Cnot Ellin Smailo), who was burned to death at Bloomfield, was formerly a resident of Blenheim, a daughter of the late R. H. Smale. In recent letters to friends she mentioned that Mrs Franklin's..house suffered severely in the recent earthquake, when the chimneys were affected.. A sister, Mrs Myrtle Garrett, lives in Wanganui, and a brother, Rewi Smale, in Nelson. —Blenheim Association message. . . ' BOYS' AND GIRLS' TENNIS. The New Zealand junior hard court lawn tennis results, as affecting. Otago and Southland : —Boys' singles—first round ; R. M.atusehka (Waikato) beat F. 13, Kerr (Otflgo), 6-5, 4-6, 6-3; C, Tenfold (Canterbury) beat F. Lee (Southland), 6-0, 2-G, 6-2; 13. Boyd (Otago) beat C. Xoddcr (Taranaki), 6-5, 5-6, 6-1. Second round; A. Allen (Auckland) beat Boyd, 6*2, 6-1. Girls' singles—first round; Ruby 'Wilson (Southland) beat Anne Burgess Watson (Auckland), 6-1, 6-1. Second round; Dorothy Dickey (Canterbury) beat Mavis Kerr (Otago), G-2, 0-1; Ina Small (Wellington) boat Maud Wilkie (Otago), 6-3, 6-3; .lessio Burns (Wellington) beat Ruby Wilson, 3-6, 6-3, 0-I.—Auckland correspondent. CARRIER FOUND SHOT. A Waipukurau Association message stales that an inquest t was opened this morning and adjourned, after identification, on Arthur Ernest Paget, a middleaged married carrier, of 3’akapau, who was found yesterday morning in a shed at the back of his residence with a bullet wound in" the head from a .22 rifle. Ho teas convoyed to Waipukurau Hospital in an unconscious condition, aid died last night.