VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1914, Page 5

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS

«T TELEGRAPH —PEE PRESS ABBOOIATIOX POLL OF RATEPAYERS. PALMERSTON NORTH, April 22. A poll was taken to-day to raise a loan of £IOO,OOO, of which £55,000 is for the purchase of the gasw<.rkg,,.;£3oiooo for extending and enlarging the works, and £SOOO for the purchase or acquisition of lands with or without buildings for offices and showrooms. The poll resulted in 711 voting for and 270 against the proposal, a -total of 981 votes, and. 10 informal, out of about 2590 ratepayers. FATAL ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, This Day.—Edwin Wliaite (55), a clerk in the Public Works Department at Rakauroa was travelling from Rakauroa to Otoko on a jigger, when he was run over by a railway engine. He was a widower with seven children. BURGLARY. MASTER-TON, This Day.—The premises of the New Zealand Loan and .Mercantile Company were entered last night and a. few pounds stolen from the safe. On Tuesday night a private residence was entered and some keys and money stolen. YOUNG MAN MISSING. DUNEDIN, This Day.—lt is feared that a young man mimed George E. Pastridge has been drowned near Cromwell. He was the owner of a motor-lorry engaged carrying produce. He was last seen on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday morning the machine was found unattended in the middle of a road about twelve miles from Cromwell. Indications suggest that Pastridgo went to the bank of the Upper Clutha River to obtain: water for the engine and owing to the darkness dell in and was drowned. The river at the spot is deep and swift.

MOTOR BUS SERVICE. TTAIARU, This Day.—A two-deck motor bus and two chassis have just arrived from Home for the Borough Council. The single-deck bus last week took over £26. VICTORIA COLLEGE. WELLINGTON. This Day.—With the £2,000 voted by the Al'Carthy Trust, the Victoria College proposes to establish a School of Economics, Commerce, and History, conducted by a. professor at a. salary of £BOO per annum. The Government will be asked to provide the .additional funds necessary and fruhter contributions from the Trust, if any. will go to reduce the amount supplied by the Government SUICIDE, HASTINGS, This Day.—George Laosdowne, (45) a single man residing with his father at Havelock North, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting his throat with a butcher’s knife. He succun ’ ;d an hour later.