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AUCKLAND, tmV day. A child -named Raymond Ehwright, aged 14 months, whose parenjts reside m Russell street, Ponsonby, ate soap m a bathroom, and despite medical "attention died shortly aftepvards. Ah analysis of the soap will be ? . made prior to an inquest.'.^ -. ;. \ 'AAA; '•'-'. .y.
NAPIER, this day. Mr. J. H, Coleman, who ' his • given liberally to various patriotic fund's, ha* intimated that he vvill give £100 monthly for the. relief of, Belgium distress. WELLINGTON, this day. Satisfactory * arrangements, y having been made by the shipping company tho MagistraCe'a Court , to-day made an order.' rescinding the " 'contract entered into by .a fireman on the Tainui to, make the round voyage. , A." . CHRISTCHURCH, this day. During the stay of the steamer Tainui at Lyttelton a number, of drums of oil disappeared. Yesterday the police visited the premises of Rudoe Anderson, a sailmaker and well-known resident. He denied all knowledge of the oil. ' A search seemed hopeless until the police discovered an aperture m a ceiling. Inside there were eleven drums. The police subsequently arrested Robert Hempstalk and Thomas Jones on a charge of theft of the drums and Anderson on a charge of receiving stolen property. ; They " were remanded until Wednesday. , While on duty at the Defence electric light stations 1 at Lyttelton to-day Frank Olsen 'and^Owen Car fell tiyer a- cliff. Olsen sustained a fractured skull," and his condition is serious. Car- injured one of his legs.
TIMARU, lust night. « After a three days' .hearing, thesecoud trial of Robert Guthrie, a sheepfarraer of Mount Nessing, Albury, on n charge of stealing 48 of a- neighbqr's sheep, proved • abortive, the jury, disagreeing. The case, is set down for re-hearing at the- June sessions.
The Timaru Harbor, Board offered debentures for £132,900 m the Dominion, with the result that the whole sum was secured. The interest is 5 per cent, and the term twenty years. - One "tender below par was .refused. Others va ry from par to s' per cent, premium. DUNEDIN, last night. John Morrison, aged 45 years, was accidentally killed at Palmerston this morning. . He was riding a bicycle alongside a moving traction engine, which was drawing a threshing mill. The bicycle skidded and he was thrown under the wheels of the mill, receiving • fatal injuries. -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13645, 27 March 1915, Page 3
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