LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 27 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The farmers’ red, white and blue banner is becoming a most interesting article it is now placed on public view in Mr Fraser’s window. Thdre are already 109 names to be inscrbied thereon, many of them being ladies. Mr R. Cleaver is still the highest contributor, with £IOO.

On Saturday morning a man named Lay den. while walking across the railway bridge over the river just the other side of Mataroa was fatally run into by a train and thrown into the river. An inquest was opened at the Taihape Coroner’s Court on Saturday and adjourned until Tuesday morning.

A carpenter named Graham Vaug- ( h'an, do years of age, and married, residing at Lower Hutt, met with a nasty accident last week. He was handing sheets of corrugated iron up on to the roof of a building when he slipped and fell. A sheet of iron tumbled down and struck him on the wrist, cutting it right around and severing the tendons. He was brought in to Wellington hospital for treatment.

The Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the Legislative Council yesterday, provides that the council of a divided borough may bj special order adopt the operation of tjhe principal Act, which was passed last year. Thereafter all subdivisions will be abolished. Any .other local authority comprising a membersnfp cf not less than seven may also come under the Act by special order approved by the Governor-in-Council. The death occurred on Tuesday at Russell, Bay of Islands, of Mr. E. M. D. Whatman, at the age of 55 years. He resided for over 20 years at Masterton, and was formerly a prominent New Zealand footballer. For many years he was a Wairarapa representative, ‘and was also a member of Harry Roberts’s Wellington representative team which met Stoddarts’ English team some 27 yeafs ago. He was one of the finest forwards in New Zealand in his day, and a captain of the Masterton senior team which toured the South Island 24 years ago. For many years he followed farming pursuits in the Masterton district, and was also :

member of the Wellington Acclimatisation' Society. Old-time New Zealand footballers will deeply regret the death of one who was universally popular rn and off the football field. Deceased ~emoved to Russell a few years ago.

The body of a man about thirty years of age was discovered at the foot of Mt, Victoria, near the KUbirnie tunnel, by a tramwajy employee named Edward McConnell. There was.a bullet wound in the forejhead of the corpse, while a revolver was clutched In one hand. A flask of whisky and a glass were found lying alongside the body. Constable McKelvie, who was summoned, removed the body to the morgue to await Identification. Later in the day the body was identified as that of Samuel Sloan, a bootmaker by trade, and previously residing with a confectioner at 203, Cuba Street, named Matthew Janies Younger. The latter said that deceased had been employed at Hannah's boot shop, and had' a mother residing at Addington,Christchurch. Deceased had left the shop in Cuba Street at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday, and then appeared in good health.