TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

' The- monthly para vie of the N;ili«>n;il Reserve will Is? hold to-night. A large. i'ttvnda-nce is requested.

i The ret urn od wldiers at tfoo hospital art- iNxpocted to bo present ill the -Re turned Soltlirrs' Association's entertainment to-night. Mr. D. McKeague has kin til v undertaken to IVring them down and tako them back again by motor car.

! I'robato was granted by Judge llosking.s. al> Wellington, on February 27, m the estate- of Elizabeth ■Sobei's to Elizabeth Theresa Sobers, on the motion of. Mr A. Wv: Roes ; and .m. the estate ni' ( 1 ■•.•o.ugc Uifyu • to James. UJ(iiraja<l 'Mar-'; tin H.'itlam Manner, on the motion of '■Mr <?.-, Stock.

i I'our natives of Oi.vupelli Station, Northern Territory, the Adminstvator (Dr. ( Jilriith) is advised, put strychnine m some b ltter, which Mas eaten by the I manager ;uid staff, with the result that ! they became serioiia'y ill, but recovered. | Two of the natives weie dealt with summarily, while the alleged ringleader was committed for trial. ' A fatal accident occurred at Ohnva on Sunday, when a young seaman named r Simpson. 18 years of age, was either j drowned or carried away by a shark. j The Opotiki Guardian states : — It appeai'a that an engineer (Mr A. Bond), a I fireman named Ross, and an assistant steward, a Fijian named Tinoi, together with Sininson took a boat from the Ngatiawa and rowed ashore at Ohiwa, land- . ins,' a short distance above the wharf. The men then indulged m a bathe. The engineer got into difficulties, but was (brought ashore by the steward. As those I two men were passing Simpson, the latter wn s standing waist-deep m water. A few moments later they heard a cry, and on looking round observed that Simpson hiid disappeared. While this happened Ross, the fourth member of the party. was up on the sandhills m I the vicinity.