HOTELKEEPERS SUICIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13673, 14 February 1908, Page 5

HOTELKEEPERS SUICIDE.

■-'■ :^:^:^^-%:; -■''' .'■»■"■ ". "-' '»<!<>■ . ...'l'.""' '"'"".'/",/■: '■/': 'V:i'V:i [BT TELEGRAPH.—-furs'? ASSOCIATION.] f'}:V '.'■■''■ ' iMVisncAßfiiLL, Thursday. '■';' The police have been advised that Martin Corcoran, who recently acquired tins ;•' - license of the Ballarat Hotel, at Arrow- j town, committed suicide by cutting his.;J throat this morning. s ' '' I HELPING THE HELPLESS- | ;;..;;;/.; ~,.; :: 7" ■;. ■: -^—-»— ■,7 —- '"'■;■::■'.'■': / , / : i : : :[ \ '' • [BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] ■'' :r , DonEihnt, Thursday. ■ 'The question of the jurisdiction ox chantable aid boards and that of benevolent ■trustees in the matter of the distribution of charitable aid came ■ before the Court ' ' yesterday, in the foim of an application by the former for an order declaring that it - had general control over the distribution of charitable aid within the united district ' ■ ■ of Central Otego, Tuapeka, a-"i Otago, and that it had power to specify parts of . ilistricte within which the benevolent trus- , tees had power to distribute aid. The ' , Board wishes to confine the trustees' Opera l toons to a limited area, but the trustees -• claim that the distribution of charitable aid was vested, in them over 20 years ago. His Honor Mr. Justice Williams reserved Ida decision.