TELEGRAMS

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5706, 29 April 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[Per Press Association] New Plymoptu, This day The death is announced of James Sole, aged 92 Ho arrived in the Oriental, in November, 1841. Wanganui, This day The body of Benjtmin Pegley, aged 22, was found lying on a borough boundary road early this morning Deceased was Bubjeot to epileptio fits and it is sur rnised that when riding home on a bicycle, last night, he fell tff in a fit aud was smothered Fkktahuna, This day. The Alfrndton correspondent of the Express advises that the Maunders road •ohool and o-uiteuts wore destroyed by fire on Thursday evening A bucket brigade saved the outbuildings nud garden tools Tbe oause of the fire is attributed to a defective chimney. Wellington, This day Loo Yong was fined £ls for opium smoking and for having opium in bis possession. The conference of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards oalled for the 14th June, has been postponed until the 27th. At the resumed inquest on the boy Ronald Blaok, who was found hanging by the neck, evidence was givon by the deceased’s frionds that he had been to a picture show aud had seen pictures of a man hauging, but who was not killed. The coroner said there was uo motive to suggest euioide and he agreed with the dootor that it was a most extraordinary thing to do. The coroner returned a verdict that death was due to strangulation, the result of misadventure. Gisborne, This day Councillor Thomas Jackson died this morning, from tho effects of an injury sustained on Thursday, when he slipped aud fell in the Gisborne Freezing Works, the haudiu of a stoel penetrating his body.