WANGANUI NEWS
United Press Association
Wanganui, Juno 21. It is reported that the local dairy companies intend raising the price of first-grade hatter next week to Is 4d. Dr. .Miller, recently out from Home, uul practising in Waverloy, died this morning, aged <3B years. Henry Hood, one of the Borough's foicmon, and an old Wanganui bands,»ait, died suddenly this morning, igod 11, as a result of a paralytic Woke. Ho was at work yesterday. The mystery attaching to the disappearance of •). M. Gibbons, tutor to A. Sutherland (Fordell) has been cleared up bv a tragic discovery by the police. Some distance away from the house they came upon a quantity of smouldering wood, which proved to have been a funeral pyre, for m the ishos were found* the skeleton of a •nan and the remains of a' razor. In a note which the deceased left in the muse he had intimated his intention of committing suicide. He indicated that lie would set fire to a stack of nannka, throw himself on it, and cut ins throat, details being given of the I'terv he would sever. Deceased adued an apology to the owner of the manuka for destroying his wood. The stack referred to contained several cords.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 105, 24 June 1911, Page 4
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