In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20111, 2 April 1928, Page 7

In the Dominion

Dunedin Customs revenue for 1m financial year shows a decrease on <■ previous year, 1 he figures being £812.!.? • against £873,51 beer duty £240, 7 against £232,166. At Auckland on Saturday Air J / tied Blair, on the application of / Law Society, granted a rule nisi agaij/ John Henry Victor Mansell, .solicitorl// be moved into the Court of Appeal, j e that he be suspended from practical the meantime. La I At Eltham on Saturday Leoni, 'Thomson, aged 62, an employee of L Borough Council street staff ur J r -‘ years, dropped dead in the Town it 1 while employed in the Town if There will be no inquest, a doj having given a certificate of deatl\J A building contractor. Ernest Cllaged 31 years, of Dominion if' Aucklanid*. disappeared while swimjuL at Point Chevalier on Saturday noon. Clarke had been bathing v ll his family. A search is being iulo for the body. g ( A fire started in the benzine st|l of Winstone’s Lvl., on the Au<kla'| waterfront yesterday afternoon. famels rising from the burning oil LS*to a great height, an ► being spectacular. It was th night fire, would burn for several hours. firemen. Walker and Beauth wer sent to hospital suffering from burn! At the Supreme Court at Gisborn judgment was given by Mr Justice Ost ler in the case of de J’clichet, AlcLco> and Co., v. William Douglas Lysnai The claim was for £3OOO on a guarante allegedly given by defendant ove credit, in Gisborne, by his brother. Th Court gave its decision for plaintiff fo the full amount, with interest at 7i pc cent. When ATr Halverson, of Te Papapa awoke at 4.30 on Saturday morning, h discovered his wife was not in bed, say an Auckland telegram. He found he dead in the kitchen with her head ii the gas oven. Afrs Halverson was 3: years of age, and had undergone severa operations in hospital. She was expect ing to return there for another opera tion. While births in the Dunab’n distric showed the substantial increase of 41 on the previous month’s registrations the total was much below those record ed for Alarch of last year. Vital static tics compiled by the Registrar are al follows, those for the corresponding month being given in parentheses! Births 125 (174), deaths 62 (66) mar riages 59 (63).