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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3461, 4 January 1901, Page 3

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Pdr ;Pzaeft : 4«soci»tiaßJannary 3. WilliMn RoJkStaon, ~ carpenter on the" .Ovalau,.jtaa 'drowned at Rewa, in Fiji, ; Y • - GISBOBJG&-rJin»TOry 3. ~ " foUowing"cl^X'w9~?®o^*^ , ' £S the- Bowgng to 'bei 'hetd'here nnct; we& :Tr-Au«ilaßd, VicBidiawston North, Mt. lington, - Play , startson .Monday. ; - r . ; - WELLINGTON, - January 3. • Lillywhite, alias, Blatch,' charged , with ■the Colchester murder,' was again . remanded} for -a week. : - Mr Ward has offered the vacant seat on the Midland Railway Commission to Mr Fraser, M.H.R. for Wakatipu. / CHWSTCHURCH, -jaiinary, 3.-' A conference of Seventh. Day Adventists opened here to-day. About 75 delegates are in camp, including representatives., from Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and, Melbourne. • V * WESTPORT, January 3. . - -1)." Glover's drapery- store and. contents at\ VVaiinangaroa were totally destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morning, and Williams' premises adjoining were damaged., OAMARU, January 3. Ai map; 'name unknown, aged abont 50, and supposed from papers in his pocket, to be A. A. Rutledge, of Riverfon, was found' dead-in the police lock-np at Kurow • rthis' moraing. He' had been only teh 'days in the. district, and was arrested, yesterday afternoon as a man of unsound mind. "- He had been attended during the | evening by Dr Stevens. . . . DUNEDIN, - ' ■ .'John Adams, .chief clerk in the 'Kaitangata mine shot himself this - morning. . His-age was' 40, and he was unmarried. He left .a note-saying that he contemplated self-destruction. * .