SOUTHLAND.
Dr Truby King, accompanied by Dr Hay, arrived in InvCrcargill on Wedneslay by the express for the purpose of inquiring into the question of the sanity of Daniel Swan, who< is under sentence of death for wife murder. The doctors saw Swan at the Invercargill Gaol during the afternoon, but do not care to say what conclusion they have come to. A fishing boat, tho Puritan, belonging to Mr J. Metzger, Bluff, has been wrecked on Dog Island. The crew were rescued by a boat from the lighthouse. The s.s. Rose Casey, which went ashore on Riverton bar, is likely to become a total loss. She is disappearing in the sand. The Executive of the Southland Fallen
Troopers' Memorial has received prices from Aberdeen for a granite memorial, but these are much over the sum available .fc!900). A suggestion to build in "brick and' cement, with granite columns, was not favoured, and the new point was raised that the sd-e chosen by a public meeting (tho intnrsection of Dee and Tay streets) was likely, in the event of tramways beinglaid, to cause the monument to become a serious obstruction to train's.
A cold snap passed over Southland at the end of last week. Snow fell inland, and lightning splintered to matchwood about a quarter of a mile of telegraph polos at Waiav. There was considerable mortality among the young lambs. It is now fine
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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 34
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