DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 53, 27 February 1912, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

fPer Press Association.) (Auckland, February 25. No trace lias so far been discovered ■of the eight-year-old girl who was ikidnapped from" 'Eden Terrace on ; ; Thursday morning. One of the men 'smspdcted of being connected with the 'affair.'is «at'preSellt under arrest, but ■the; mother’s fears are that he is not the prime mover in the matter, and that every hour increases the distance between herself and her child. - The body''of a man named James Gibbons, a labourer, was found in the harbour yesterday. In one pocket of the coat was an unopened bottle of Lysol. Gibbons left his lodgings three weeks ago and his landlady supposed he had gone to Wellington Gwendoline Thompkins, single, aged 35, who had been unwell for some time died suddenly yesterday. She had been attended by Dr Parkers t for some days and was apparently improving when she was suddenly taken seriously ill and died before the doctor could reach her. Dr Parkes refused a certificate. A post mortem revealed pregnancy but nothing to cause death. An analysis of the stomach is to be made. Wellington, February 26. William George Brett, 43, machinist, died in the hospital on Saturday after the application of an anaesthetic preparatory to an operation for the removal of an abscess on the scalp. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to heart failure. Timaru, February 25. The collections in town yesterday for the Ambulance Brigade towards the cost of a hall and general, realised £lls, about the same as last year. The country collections are not yet returned. The annual congress of the Now Zealand branch of the Medical Association has concluded. Papers and discussions both technical and political (the relation of the profession to societies and chemists) were all takeff in committee. Dr. Valintine mot the congress and made a statement regarding the relations of the Department to the profession, which was regarded as satisfactory. Members say that the congress has been a very great success and that they have enjoyed their visit to Timaru. Dunedin, February 25. There is no improvement in the condition of G. Wheeler, the jockey who was injured in the Hurdle Race at Wingatui on Wednesday. The new Government steamer Farnslaw, for the Lake Wakatipu service, was launched to-day at Kingston. There was no ceremony. The steamer glided into the water without a hitch.