LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15221, 20 May 1920, Page 5

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jast night., Resentment, is expressed by the trustees ?f the will of the late Major "Brown- at ho attitude of the. authorities in Wellington in^. endeavoring to 'secure his collection ' 6v 'insects for the Dominion Museum. One of the trustees said yesterday that in a letter sent to tho "trustees Jast October, the prohibition against export was absolute and final. There was nothing about it being merely for -'a time. As a matter of fact, the object Of prohibiting the collection from leaving tho Do- ; minion seemed solely that it should, go to tho Wellington Museum., i /.-. 'DUNEDIN. last night.; Anthony Patterson,; single, '-iggcd 25 years, farm laborer, was.. found dead in his- bedroom at the Occidental/ -Hotel .jthis niorhing, There was /a, w°uhd /in centre of his ,'forehe'ajd, ahd a ".22 Steyeils. rifle, with a discharged * cartridge .in .yjje;'; r'iamber, was lying ' on tlie , floor, j. The body was partliy on the .bed/an'd its'positioil seemed to ihdicato that' deceased shot himself while sitting oh the bed. "_. On the dressing /table was'a 'box' ot '.22, /cart-' ridges... He was- last seen "alive 'yesterday-' about 1.45 -p.m.., when he .went to ; his room-; Deceased- is reported to haye left a letter in h is roojn. stating^. that he in- ' t ended to commit : suicide^ and saying gjod-bye to,. ,g.U , l^ ! ;- i , v /i^„ i >