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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14359, 2 May 1910, Page 6

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It b*%s been ,di**aed. to establish freezing ■'; Mortis w*salclutha. ~-'-; , The deaths'yn-ith«j;Dunedm district ■■(; during April, totalled "100, * which is a record. By a fire at Canvastown (Marlborough) a -Mr. . Rutland/ sen.,; lest a museum,, of . curios, some dating back a* far as Queen . -Anne. " >:. : -;--.'-. ■■^W^i■"•:¥■' : -: ! \ : -- - , A new. artesian bore on the Borough • - Park, Napier South,. lias a capacity of between 6000 and 7000 gallons per hour. ]~ ■ The total cost was £30. The Dunedm Star relates that a trader ■ ■". of the city who got into pecuniary difficulties some 15 years ago,', has'returned - to Dunedin, 'and is'paying off his debts in full. •,-., • < . . , At (N.S.W.) last week Jack Griffiths finished swinging clubs f0r,,72 hours : continuously, thus beating' the ■ world's record by, over four hours.*• Griffiths, who finished strong and well, was loudly : : /\, cheered. - , - ; , . . Arthur Youens, a telephone linesman, '•■ was killed near York {W.A:) last week :_: by : a falling telegraph pole, which fractured his skull. Deceased was engaged in putting cross arms on the pole, when, it fell on him. , - . j At; the Melbourne I are -and hounds sports last week, G. A- Wheatley won the 1000 yds race in the Australasian •'-'.record' time of 2m. 19 2-ss. The previous record of 2m. 1 19 3-ss. was made by J. F. Dairymple 15 years ago. . .;• " ' . A mine fatality occurred last week at the Great "Boulder . Proprietary -r mine, Boulder (W.A.). Two men, Peter Graham and Harry Kilrain, were working at ; the 1300 ft" level, when.. a fall of .earth took .". . .place, burying: both. 'Graham: was rescue:! alive,; but his companion was 'killed.' -: ' A man *in Central Otago (Clyde) made • £60: per square chain off 'a big strawberry ;■-" patch last: year/ 11 lis 5 strawberries i came t— early, and he packed; them 'in glass jars for the Dunedin markets,' netting an average price for his crop of not less than --"" 2s 9d per pound. . ..,., Walter Edmond Ferguson,'49, "a tailor, ; shot himself in bed at his home in Launceston (Tasmania), last week. He had been drinking, and went to his room m .;,'7.\. : the afternoon. His wife sent their son, 13 years old, ,to call him for tea, and tho boy reported ; that ,his father was dead. The- body was lying on : the back with the ;•;;; arms across the chest, and a revolver with ? two chambers discharged lying on the bed. Frederick George a farmer near ;■'■'■■ Natimuk, was,, at 1 tim Hamilton (Vic.) Sessions last week, sentenced to 15 :years' >■'■■<:■: - : ' imprisonment■• on a charge of ■'having committed an offence against his daughter, aged 19. On a charge of having attempted to commit "an offence against' another daughter, when v she i was only ;13 years of age, accused was sentenced to . five years' imprisonment, to be concurrent ■ with the previous sentence. . I/:' The following*was the state of the Mount J; Eden -prison'for the week ended Saturday ; ; '; ' last: —On ; remand, ;12 : males; V awaiting trial, 16 males, one female; sentenced '• to ..; / - life, two males; sentenced to hard labour, 268 males, 21 females; sentenced to impri- • . sonment, "one male; default of bail, one „ / male;: debtors, one male;; received during; <? the week,' 45 males, two females; disv charged, 44 males, five females: : total in prison, 301 males, 22 females. ■.]