DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14707, 7 June 1920, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

| (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June G. i The body of a commercial traveller, ; named George Kelson JSutler (o x yc;i."o ! cf age), employed -oy A. H. Nathan, : Ltd., was found on St. Mary's Beach • this morning, apparently drowned. De- ' rc-i'sed had ueen to Whaugarei. and on Friday telephoned to his wife that he would return next day. Nothing further was? heard of him. Pic leaves no family. The body of a married woman named Amy Ryan, about forty years of age, . was found floating in the harbor this J morning. She was last seen on Friday. I The price of household toal has been j increased by 2s a ton as from June I Ist. This is due largely to the fact j that the demand has been in excess of ■ supplies. DUNEDIN, June G. A boy named Jas. Caskic, telegraph messenger, fifteen rears of age, living in Cumberland street, was electrocuted last night about nine o'clock in a re-, soive known as the Triangle in Lower High street. Caskic was swinging on one of the wire stays of the flagpole, when a high wind blew against it the electric power wire. This probably carried a current of about 1700 volts, and C'askie must have been killed instantly. At an inquest held this afternoon a formal verdict was returned.