NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Stock . Exchange observed a half holiday yesterday on account of the Show. Tho prospects for a busy Christmas sea-t-on- m Auckland are considered to be good. Ihe holiday influx is expected to commence next week, when the exclusion rates come into force.
The Minister for Railways stated en -.Tuesday that .under new regulations which were about to be issued superannuated railway men will be granted railway concession tickets once a month. •
.■ During the striko fever some of the newsboys proclaimed a strike. One boy r-who would not join tho movement—had some of his papers destroyed by his less . reasonable companions. The outcome was '■ the appearance of two boys at the Juvenile Court yesterday, before Mr. R. T. •Michaels, J.P., who discharged the culprits with a.caution. v
The inquest into the circumstances connected with ,the death.of ,Bojiro, Higashibara;;.the,; 'boatswain' - on 'thf*'Japanese steamer Kwanto Mani/ who committed sujeide by hanging himself in his cabin in which lie was being detained under • suspicion of having murdered a } member of the crew,, was held yesterday,', A verdict "of death by strangulation' was returned. 7 '■'■".. .. '•'' • 'iftfl;'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15480, 11 December 1913, Page 8
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