DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 22, 24 January 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. A REVOLTING CASE. (per Press Association.) Ashburton, January 23. At the Methven Police Court day, before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, b.M., Michael Dempsey, aged 53 years, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of having committed .an unnatural offence. The police and medical evidence was of a revolting nature. Bail was allowed accused in the sum of £IOO and one surety of a like amount. WORLD’S CLUB-SWINGING RECORD. v Wairoa, January 24. Captain Base, who started at nine o’clock on Monday night to break the world’s endurance record for clubswinging, put up by Lawson (Australia), of 113* hours, is still going strong.' There was no distress at nine o’clock to-day, when he had swung 84 hours. It'appears likely that he will 1 perform 'the task. : DIED IN THE BUSH. ’At the inquest on the body of Cr. 'Mclntyre, found in the Morere bash on Wednesday, the evidence showed that deceased had gone into a gully to fire fogs, and while passing under a half-burnt rimu, a branch fell, striking him on the head. Death was probably instantaneous, thus sparing him the agonies of burning the lower part of the body while penned down. The - -funeral was attended by members and officials of the focal bodies of the dis- ' trict. * FEARS FOR THE WORST. Timaru, January 24, The boat in which Nicholas and Darby, the two anglers who were washed out to sea at the mouth of the Rangitata, was found this morning between ‘Rangitata and* Qpihi. There was no sign of the'bodies, and the worst is now feared, showing that the boat must have been swamped in the rough sea'some time before the launch from Timaru arrived on the scene. ARRIVALS ANDDEPARTURES. Wellington, January 24. The arrivals in the Dominion during December were 5473, and the departures 2767. The totals for the year were respectively 44,660 aUd 35,733.