LATE NEW ZEALAND HEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 8

LATE NEW ZEALAND HEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

DARGAVLLLE, this day

J[eayy rain last/ night cauWit the largest fresh for two years. All the : timbevnum are busy rafting several millions of lc,gs from tidal creeks.

AUCKLAND, tins oay. A man whose name is believed to bq A.- ilnljiweli, aged about 45 years, was found at 6 o'clock this morning in A'bert Park.' In an unconscious condition, with, n iinctiu'ttl skull and abrasions to tno aim and knees. TJie man Wii* well' dressed, and bis pockets contained a- watch, gold chain, -seven sovereigns, and a document from the I'ublic Works Department. The man was conveyed to Iho hospital, where, ho lies in a. precarious condition. OHIUSTCHURCH. this (lay. Ah Mow miis fined £30 and costs for baviniT opium illegally in his posjtpssion. ])UNEDIN, 'Uiis day. The Prime Minister and the Hon. J. Allen this morning received a- deputation of local interest, ISfr Ma.ssey in the afternoon unveiled a memorial erected at Port Chajmers to Captain Scott i»nd liis companions. INVERCAIKULL, this day. At the inquest on the body of Hector Morrison, found dead in front of a CTauiesG boatrdiiy?-hous<?, t.h« evidence, showed tlwt the windows of the premises were smashed by larrikins. The night was .very <-lnrk, and Lock Kin went to the door with a pun and fired. A vfrdict was found that death was caused by a wound in the head from a, bullet from a Snider carbine fired by Jjook Kin,