NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 59

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

AUCKLAND. Rating on unimproved values was carried in the Thames County by a majority of four to one. A younff married woman named Ettie Douglas is supposed to have committed suicide by drowning in the Waikato River. On July 29 she left a note informing her husband of her intention to commit suicide. She had suffered from an internal .Complaint for some time past. The police fotmd her clothing on the bank of' the river. Alfred Robert Welham, chemist, of Grey Lynn, pleaded guilty to-day to nine charges of having purchased opium without recording the purchases and the manner in which the drug was disposed of. He explained that some of his papers were destroyed by fire and also some of the drug used in the manufatcure of proprietary medicines. A fine of £1 on each charge was imposed. Alexander Gore Brett, formerly clerk and collector to the Eden Terrace Road Board, was committed for trial on the Ist on a charge of failing to account for £257 19s lid. A trimmer, named Harry Buss, was found in bed on Monday morning with hifl throat cut. At the foot of the bed lay an open I‘azor. Dr Houe was called in, and after putting in some stitches he had the man sent to the hospital. A trimmer’s discharge was found on him. This gave the name of Henry Buss, aged 37, and his nationality was set down as German. The unfortunate man had been, at a boarding-house for a little over a week, paying his way regularly. On Saturday he asked if he could stay on for another week as he was out of work. Ho ivas told he might for a day or two. Jfc is thought that he cut his throat in a fit of depression. His condition at the hospital to-day was ranch about the same aa when he was admitted. HAWKE’S BAY. At 10.45 a.m. on the 30th July a huge meteor broke and fell into a gully near Lake house, Waikarc-moana. It caused quite an illumination all round, and w-aa accompanied by a terrific noise. Parties set out trying to locate the visitant from space. WELLINGTON. The police paid a surprise visit to premises in Taranaki and Plaining streets occupied by Chinese at a late hour on the 29th. The raid was organised with the object of uprooting supposed pakapoo dens, and five Chinese and ten whites were arrested. W. Hall, a member of the Corinthian Association Football Club, who was concerned in the recent episode in the Diamond-Corinthian match, has been suspended for five years for failing to appear before the committee when requested several times to do so.