INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.)

••-.-,. AUCKLAND, this day.! Tlie death is announced of Mr. Sidney J. Nathan, consul for Sweden. The dead body of Mary Cfleiry, of Frederick: Qeii^abp^iof^^riinur^ was found iii'tie Tawaki^V^f^idenceJ at the * inquest jd.^'ased.iwas. depressed owing to inability through illness to care for her young" baby. An open verdict was returned. '?'■ ■-■"■■■ Hannah . Dalton, an Elderly woman/ hasvbeen arrested, charged' with"nlaw--ful use of an" instrument on aj young woman who is m a very low condition. -v- "'■■-..'. DUNEDIN, last hjgbt. -7, A ' fiie at Thomson arid Co.'s cordial factory late on- Saturday night did. damV* ape' 't«' the extent of between £17,000 and7£2ojOCip. -, The* fire:!started inythe bottling' department!' and' much damage was .done to the machinery^belting, 'eta} ,, but . tjie two brigades' extinguished the fire thei.' central portion 7 of 7 the premise^ was .demolished. . The .ipsur*-, ances!are spread- among six companies', the VG^a^ian- /.-(Covering^the: , largest amoiirit7 ' • " " '* .'•'.!'

;.'.*-■ r\ '.GREY^IOIJTII/th-isiidayi .„ Tho '.Paparoa mine resumed work to-ri&y/'.a-fter a couple of days' strike. The dispqte 'was m connection -with the cutting! of-.t^o precise «?e, of props for tipibemig- uriidOTgr©uhd7' ■** A settlement was effected by compromise. • , ' f Special to the Herald.) 7 CHRJSTCHURCH, this day. ..Herbert- E. Boon, a well-known •journalist, died rather suddenly on Saturday \njght.^'He''_.as seyeral, years ouy'the Chris'twiurch '"Press. Theii he went- to 'Auckland Star, joining the reporting .staff -'of "ithe Wellington Post -about-. fpur years7ago. He 'was? one' of ! the Post's r ' a^^!^i*t»*««Vi n ; the-- press sgallery, and was po\\ a short visit to his parents after : the .g^sion. ' He was a ■ single man , 3y^- years of age. " He had been medically fejecfteiff.-'for active seiyice.