DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

(r<ir Press Association.') ,|ji j Dunedin, April 17.About 5.30 p.m. to-day John McCoy, 55 years of age, who was lately employed on .a .farm at Enfield, near Oamam, was found dead in his bedroom at the Shamrock Hotel. Deceased came to town on April til. land had .been .staying with a, married daughter at the hotel. During tiia.l time lie had been in good 'health. 'The cause Off death is unknown at present. Timani, April 18. The Tc Maunga, settlement was ballotted for this morning. Sixteen sections aggregating 4897' acres were diJ> posed of, hut there were no applications for the other three sections, aggregating 1051 acres. Wellington, April 18. Up to the present time the Government has cabled Home £3374 collected in various districts of the Dominion for the relief of women and children in the British coal strike. Palmerston, April 18. Percy Field, the victim of the motor car accident, had only been in Longburn fair nine having come from Waiwera South, where his parents reside. A statement is made by Downes to the effect that neither he nor the victim hoard or noticed the car till it was right on them. Field was carried about, thirty paces' Downes cannot account for the accident. J. W. Milner was the driver of the car and he had three passenger's. In a statement to the police they declare that they were travelling slowly, having just passed a railway crossing. The horn was sounded and the car was on the right .ride of the road. They also cannot account foi the accident. They found the car suddenly on two men one of whom jumped right in front. An inquest before a. jury will he held tomorrow. Auckland, April IS. In the Police Court Lofty Richards, John Weston, Charles Taylor. Robert Phhter and Daniel Twohill all pleaded guilty to keeping gaming houses. They wore convicted and fined £75 each. Leonard Andrews, clerk in the two firte't-named, warfined £25, ,the persons found on the premises being fined £1 cache. Wellington, April 18. The Chief Justice gave his reserved judgment to-day in .an involved native land case in which distinct allegations of fraud, wore made. The parties’ were Martha MeGrerfir (formerly Martha Maliupuku) and the District Land Registrar and William Harris and Thomas Harris, sheep farmers. His Honor held that the lease to dofondants Harris and also flic confirmation were both mil and void. Defendants must have known fl at they wore acting in a. way morally wrong in obtaining the lease. Judgment was given for plaintiff with costs. ,