LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 11 April 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Athletic Council in Wellington last night T. Oakley’s application in connection with the mile cycle record was refused on the grounds of lateness.-—(P.A) The following discharges in bankruptcy were granted in the Supreme Court yesterday by His Honour, Mr. Justice Smith: N. R. Ramsden, Martinborough (Mr H. Biss), J. C. Cooper, Masterton, (Mr C. C. Mansaek), and G. Neich. horse trainer, Oarevillo. Last night the large Wellington Town Hall was crowded from the organ loft to the back wall and galleries on the occasion of the celebration of the cenetary of the birth of General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. The Mayor, Mr G. A. Troup, presided, and there was also present the Prime Minister, the Rit. Hon. Sir J. G. Ward.—(P.A.) Sales of imported Lincoln sheep were held in Buenos Aires about the middle of last December, a.nd while New Zea-land-bred stock met with a good demand, trade in English stud animals was slow. The top price £473, was realised for W. Rhyner No. 260 and A. E. Anderson No. 276 fetched just on £350, ‘both being from the Dominion. £l4O was the best that could be obtained at auction for British rams. ■The annual service -shoot was hold by the Alfredton Rifle Club on Saturday. The Challenge Cup, donated by Mr H. E. Greathead, was won for this season by Rifleman L. Sigvertsen. Possibles were scored by Riflemen A. Edmonds. W. Algie, and W. Leach in the snap-shooting and by Rifleman D. McGovern in the grouping practice, while Rifleman L. Sigvertsen scored a good 35 out of a possible 40 in the rapid firing. An inquest was held yesterday into the death of Jack Ronald Malcolm Miller, aged 28 years, who was found lying unconscious at the bottom of the hold of the Coptic at Lyttleton on April 3 and who died in the Christchurch Hospital on the following day. He had evidently fallen down the previous day and lain unconscious during the whole afternoon and night. The cause of death was a fractured skull. The evidence was that that part of the .ship where Miller fell was dark and that it would be quite possible for him to trip and fall. He had business on on board the ship with gangs of men from his firm, who were working on board and probably he had been looking for them when in an unfamiliar part of the ship he met with the accident. The verdict was that Miller died as a result of injuries received when he accidently fell down a hold on the motor ship Coptic.—(P.A.)