WITHIN THE DOMINION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7356, 7 February 1911, Page 5

WITHIN THE DOMINION

LATEST TELEGRAMS I-lIES3 ASSOCIATION. DOMESTIC INFELICITY LEADS TO SUICIDE. AUCKLAND. February C. Ethel May Jack.-on, wife of Robert A. Jackson, was found dead on .Saturday at her residence in Hath street. Parnell. She left the following letter •‘.My husband has driven me to do this. Perhaps in* will ho finite satisfied with his work. He has been going out ovorv night. t think lie targets I am so very lonely. I .asked him toniahl to eorne home l . lie would not come so I think it’s better to die. Deceased married J'-ohert A. Jackson in Australia eighteen months ago. Three days alter tho marriage they quarrelled and had failed to agree ever since. Jackson left home on Thursday and did not. return till ho was informed oi his wife’s death. At Uio inquest: yesterday tho evidence showed that death was caused by corrosivo poisoning. A verdict of suicide was returned. PASTORAL LESSEES’ MEANS. TIMAUU. February G. In reference to the protests agabist the La rid Board requiring that applicants for pastoral inns bo possessed of about seven times tho annual rental of tho rim applied for, it is explained that it is necessary to ensure that lessees have capital to stock and carry on. LEASES OF SOUTHERN ISLANDS. DUNEDIN. February G. ! The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Marine, stated this evening that tenders had been received bv the (Government from Great Britain for the lease of the Campbell, Auckland, Antipodes, and Bounty Islands for sealing purposes. The islands were advertised for lease a year ago. but the tenders were unsatisfactory ami protection was maintained for another twelve months. Since then a satisfactory tender had been received from Great Britain, and another was on the way out- These vriill bo dealt with on his "return to Wellington,

FOUND DEAD IN BED, AUCKLAND, February 6. John J. Russell, proprietor of the Star Hotel, Otahuhu, was found dead in bed on Sunday morning. Death is supposed to have been due to heart failure.

BEET ROOT CULTIVATION. HAMILTON, February 6.

3lr Dyer, the Californian sugar beet expert, when interviewed, said he could not give an opinion as to whether the Waikato lands he had seen in a brief raotor-car trip yesterday afternoon would be suitable for the cultivation of beet, for the reason that his inspection was of a most cursory nature, and the class of culture pursued here was so materially different from that found in the United States. Ploughing was very shallow compared with that in tho States for tho cultivation of beets, and if it was intended to grow beets in the Waikato it would be necessary for farmers to realise that they must- plough from 14 to 16 inches deep, according to the nature of the soil, as experience has proved in California and other States that this is absolutely necessary for successful production.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.' BLENHEIM, February 6. , Herbert Obcn, a well-known represent•tative footballer, was accidentally shot in the head while rabbit-shooting at Taylor’s Pass yesterday. It is feared he may lose the eight of one eye.

WESTPORT’S BAROMETER. WESTPORT, February 6. The coal output for January was G 0,429 tons, number of steamers handled 94, mean, high water on the bar 24ft. 4in, export of timber 187,200 sup. feet, rainfall 4.66 in.