MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11960, 13 June 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland, Juno 12. D» Benjamin Rowroll, aged about •12, committed suicide last n'ubt. lie was a medical man. and held in high eal;eem ty a large circle of friends, to whom the tragic cloath has c.iused a great shock. Ho had boon travelling in the South Sea IslacoU, especially with a view to the study of elephantiasis. He had beea in Auckland for the past 13 months, and was especially well known as secretary to St. George's Bowling Clul). The proprietor of the Com mercial Hotel, witlv.vbom' I)r Rowsell had bcea stiying, reae 4 ive:l ft let!er this morning suiting that the body would he founJ either i:i St. Stephen's Cemetery. Parnell, or at Orakei, and asking the proprietor to communi :ale with th ■ pi l'co. Dr Uowsells bedy was fou .J in the ParDell Cenv-tery. Ntp'.dr, June 12. Martha CaldwelJ, licensee of the Albion Hotel, wti3 found guilty today on nine informations oE Bupplying liquor to boys apparently under the age of 18, ana was lined £15. Two barmen wero fined £10 and £1 respectively on similar charges. A& the hotel ia changing hands the license was not eudor-ed. In the couraa cf a lecture last night on climates, Dr Kennedy Government Meteorologist for tl". district, showed by tables and diagrams that Napier compares mote than favorably with tho world-famo' ! ealth resorts of the old worlJ while in the colony it is second k none, lib concluded that Napier, climate waa one of ils in st vnhinbl assets. Tho inquest on Alica Carclim 3imp3oa, a young marriv.d wonia- . who diod suddenly about thres vvtel:ago, was resumed vest -Hay. wh-. the report of th 9 Colon i 1 \-\nnlys on the contents of the stsmscli waavailable. Too Analyst found mm ute traces of a strong blister ins irritant, but too email to identify. Hi .su? ested that it might; bo cr.ntharidin. Further evidence failed ho elicit any information ;ss to bow tho poison came to bo taken by tV deceased, as she was partly a-.j i ■:■• valid, and there was nothing si' :■ poisonous nature in the bouse. 'J h jury found that death was due to L;tlnmmatiou accelerated by some ir ritant, but hoy obtained there , as no evidence to s'iow. Blenheim, Juno 12. In the Supremo CAirl i.o-day ; .John Moore, alias George Johnso .1. was sentenced to twelve months for f :r f r. of money from lodgers at tho Uimmerciul Hotel, on May 10th. G ey mouth, Juno 12. News from tue Now Alpine Mine i 3 veiy eocouragirg. Yester,h:y a telegram received frmi the B!ipii^tsrjdent was as follows: -''Incline! winze opening out on co»ro »old. More quartz making in fac . f lev. 1, cirryin.! little line foF." Dunedi \ .Juno 12. j Nicholas Tressider v. a.; bruug-ii j before Mr Justice \\ iiii:>.-.n? tLi*] mcrairg charged with luvi.^g !:r Uiu the tenn3 of his niobiif-ju tirou^Si drink. Tbe prisoner was befjra th? Uuurt last saspions for a breach, of i probation trjr^ugh drink, and bad been cautioned. He was now sent to fjaol for twelve omnths. The Union Company Lave placed an order with Doxford and H'jns for a 4000-ton turret steamer, the-princi-oal dimensions being 316 ft by. 42ftSho should reach the colony at t'ne beginning of 1908. Messrs Hosking and Solomon wore sworn in to-.day as King's Counsel by Mr Justice Williams, who referred to the excellent «ppo!utments mado by the Chief Justice.