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Hastings Standard, Issue 506, 20 December 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.)

Christciiurch, This day.

The inquest on the body of Robert O'Rorke, found dead in the Gardens on Saturday, has been adjourned till December 28th in order to allow of an analysis of the stomach. A sum of £l6 was found in the pockets of the deceased, together with a bottle of phosphor paste, with the seal not broken, a partly-used bottle containing a floid like water, and an orange with a piece bitten out of it. ' A two-year-old son of the ex-Mayor of Rangiora (Mr E. R. Good) fell into a copper of boiling water on Saturday afternoon, and died from the injuries at midnight.

Mr C. G. Andrews, late Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, died here yesterday, aged 53. He was agent in charge of the Westport branch in 1873, and his subsequent promotion was rapid. He had only recently resigned the Inspectorship owing to ill-health. " Dunedin, This day. A man named Robert Johnston was drowned off Earnsclough dredge, near Alexandria, on Friday night. His body is not yet recovered. Wellington, This day. A point of some interest under the Shops and Shop Assistants Act was decided at the S.M. Court this morning. A local hotel-keeper, who was charged with failing to give his barmaid a half-holiday, pleaded that the girl was employed as housemaid, and only went in the bar at nights during a busy week. The Magistrate held that the girl was a parson employed in the bar within the meaning of the Act, and inflicted a nominal fine.

The police had a hard tussle in arresting three men early on Sunday morning, who were creating a disturbance outside a hotel on Lambton Quay. The struggle lasted three hours, and four policemen were almost worn out before the men were safety locked in the cells. At the watch-house the men refused to be searched, and another struggle ensued. They will be brought before the Court this afternoon.