LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.
(Per Press Association.) DARGAVILLE, this day
A lire at 11.30 last- night totally destroyed a. five-roomed- house occupied by .1. Ringrose. and owned by J. Poweli, jail., who also owned the furniture. The house was insured for £750 and the. furniture for £l2O, in (ho Australian Alliance office.
(TIRIST.'UHURDU, this day. Piquant was. scratched for 'the Stewards’ Iliandi'cu.p at 2 p.m.
DUNEDIN, this day. The inquest concerning the death of a male infant,found in a drawer in a house/, maid’s room at 1 hi* Grand hotel was con/cluded this morning. As a result of the. evidence givnp a warrant, was issued for the arrest- of the mother, Marguerita Elizabeth Hand, on a charge, of murder. Medical evidence showed that the infant’s neck was encircled by a piece of clothing, tightly constricting it. The coroner’s finding was that deatli resulted from asphyxia, caused 1 by strangulation. Dale; iluddart, Parker Co., Lid., 45.' 3d. Reported sale-; N.Z. Drug Co., 695; Dominion Rubber C0.,/2.1s Gil; Kaiapoi Woollen Co. (cant.), 7s.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16570, 28 October 1924, Page 11
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