GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 21 November 1911, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

FIRE IN BOOT SHOP. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, November 20. Fire broke out to-night in A. Lindsay’s boot premises on Lambton Quay. The building was saved, but the heavy stock of boots and shoes sustained severe damage through the fire and the water. Insurances are not ascertainable.

. SUICIDE OF AN INVALID. Wellington, November 20. An inquest was held to-day-concern-ing the death of Alfred Thomas Daniel, temporary clerk in the Education De partment, 33 years of age, who was found dead in bed at his lodging lions by his brother on Sunday. The modi cal evidence showed that death was due to noisoning by strychnine. It appeared from other evidence that the deceased had been suffering internal);' for some time and bought ten grains of strychnine on Saturday from a chemist in order to kill a cat Deceased’; brother asked how it was nossible foi a customer to get such a large quantity at one time. The chemist re plied that it was not a large quantity for a cat, as a cat was pretty hard to kill. The coroner (Dr. A. Me Arthur) gave a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

THE PREMIER. Wellington, November 20. • Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister arrives from the south to-morrow morning and leaves by the Main Trunk line for Taumarunui, near which township, at a station called To Koura. he will, on Wednesday, turn the fir si sod of the railway to connect the Main Trunk line with the Wellington-New Plymouth railway at Stratford. Ht is to deliver a public address at Tau marunui on Wednesday evening.

CONCURATION COUNCIL. Wellington, November 20. The Warehouse Assistants’ Union dispute was before the Conciliation Council to-day. Some time was agah taken up with the question of whether the assistants endorsed the demands and whether the union was wanted. At one stage, while a statement of protest against the union was being made by an assistant, the assessor and agent for the union left the room and returned later. In the course of this statement it was said that out of 400 persons employed by 17 firms 353 signed the petition against the union. The objection to inclusion in the case was filed by storemen in the employ of fruit merchants. The Council is now considering the objections in committee.

A HOUSE DESTROYED. Palmerston N., November 20, At 0 o’clock yesterday morning a six-roomed house, owned and occupied by H. Moffatt, at Kairanga, was destroyed by (in=. Inmates only just bad time to get out, and nothing in the building was saved. The building was insured for £2OO in the Sun office, and the contents for £250 in the Farmers’ Mutual Office.

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