DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

"‘FOUND SHOT. !By Telcgrapji—Per Press Association.; .: CERLSTCHUKCH,' ; • f Keith Miller, aged 17 years, a High Scbool bof; the-' shn of; Mr J. Miller, Stipendiary dead in the school grounds this morning, with a bullet wound in the head and a. revolver alongside. He had been of a nervous disposition. COLLEGE BOY’S TRAGIC END. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 30. Richard Daniel Duder, aged 17, a recent arrival from England, and a student at Lincoln College, died yesIterday eveni'ng from the .effects of poisoning. At the inquest, which was adjourned,, the Principal of the Colho was sick of the. life or sick of the country. His parents live in Sussex. DEMENTED BY PAIN. U. " > AUCKLAND, Nov. 30. A verdict of suicide was found today ,in-the ease of Florence; Clara TPrteSt ibf- Reniuera, a married woman, who had recently undergone ai,serious operation and was demented liv pain. GAS TRAGEDY. ■ AUCKLAND, Nov. 30. A verdict of suicide was recorded by the coroner’s inquest held to-day on Robert Janies McKenzie, 45, who was found bv his wife in the kitchen at his residence at Ponsonby near a gas stove with a cloth over his head. He had been in ill-healtli and unemployed.

AN AUCKLAND SENSATION. AUCKLAND, Dec. 1. Frederick George Devey, aged 42 year, a carpenter, is in the hospital with a wound in the throat, Pie is in a serious condition. He was found at a house in Morningside, where his wife, who is separated from him, lives. The neighbours heard screams c-ome from the house early last evening, and Airs Devey and her young child later ran outide. A neighbour found Devey on the floor of the kitchen, wounded in the throat, and a knife nearby. Airs Devey alleges that she was thrashed by her husband with a poker, whereupon she ran outside. ANAESTHETIC VICTIM. DTJNEDIN, Dec. 1. An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Albert Jacob Turnbull, of North-east Valley, who died under an anaesthetic at the Dunedin Hospital on Friday. The Coroner found that- death was due to heart failure, whilst radium treatment was being administered, and that every care was taken by the hospital authorities.

MOTOR CYCLIST. FATAL COLLISION. DUNEDIN, Dee. 1. Stanley Omond .aged 19 years, telephone exchange clerk at Roxburgh, while returning home from his duties at 1.30 a.m. on Saturday, was knocked down hv a motor ear. He was brought to Dunedin Hospital, suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg and severe shock. The young man died at 9.4 b the same evening. An inquest was opened and was adjourned to Roxburgh,