INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15456, 26 February 1921, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

•'Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, tljis day. A prisoner named George Date, serving a sentence of five years in the local gaol, about 50 years of age, dropped dead this morning, when carrying water to the bathroom. Apparently heart trouble was the cause. Deceased was a single man, with no relatives in New Zealand. WELLINGTON, this day. The lighthouse-keeper at Pencarrow yesterday noticed an object like a man’s body floating off ihe heads. He informed the police, who found that it was a man’s body, which was brought to the morgue. Identification is practically impossible, owing to the advanced state of decomposition, but it is thought to be the body of one of the victims of the Omaha wreck. The appointment of Mr. P. D. M. Verschaffelt of the Public Trust Department, as Assistant Public Service Commissioner in place of Mr. F. V. Fraser, S.M., now president of the Arbitration Court, is announced. DUNEDIN, this day. As the contract with the Imperial Government regarding butter runs out on March 31, Dr. Reakes lias asked the Dominion Butter Committee to meet him at Wellington on March 10 to discuss proposals for the immediate future. THE SHAREMARKET. ' - WELLINGTON, this day. Banks—Australasia, seller £BS; New Zealand, seller 475; Union, buyer, 237 s 6d, seller 2415; insurance—New Zealand, seller 26s 3d; South British, seller 33s 9d ; Standard, buyer 465, seller 475; Huddart, Parker, buyer 42s 9d, seller 44s 3d • Papers Co., buyer 28s 6d, seller 29s 6d; Wailii Co., buyer 27s 9d, seller 28s 9d.—Special lo Herald.