In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 6

In the Dominion

FEILDEN TAYLOR CASE ‘ The Fieldon Taylor charge of indecent assault has been further nianiied to July 19, states a WeHingtoa telegram. HEART FAILURE A verdict of death by heart falhjrt due to asthma and* Bright’s disease was returned at the inquest at Eltham yesterday on a married woman named Ada Catherine Bennett, who was found dead in bed on Tuesday afternoon. POISONED CHOCOLATES A. child, 2| years old, a son of W. F. Webb, fruiterer, died through eating poisoned chocolates laid for the pur- > pose of destroying rats, states an Invercargill message. The chocolates were enclosed in a window, which the child opened. HEAVY FIRE DAMAGE Damage estimated at £l6OO was eene ed by fire early yesterday morning m a store at the rear of the factory owned* by Fox, Chivers, Ltd., confectioners, in St. Asaph Street, Christchurch. When the brigade arrived the building was ablaze. The origin is not known. SMALL BOY KILLED A fatality occurred on the To Arohts Paeroa highway when the seven-year-oH son of W. A. Brinkley, of Mangaitij was knocked down and killed by a motor car containing members of the Thames Valley Power Board returning to Thames from a Board meeting. FIRE AT HASTINGS A five-roomed dwelling in Lascelle® Street, owned by Air Bendjal, of Napier, and occupied by Air Daniel Afarray, was gutted by fire yesterday and the contents .destroyed. The furniture and contents were insured for £250, but the insurance on the building is not available. EAST COAST RAILWAY L’he Gisborne Chamber of Commerce, in view of the announcement of tho Taupo railway proposal, has decided to write the Prime Minister and Afinister of Works, asking for an assurance that the Government ’s undertaking with respect to the East Coast line will not be lost sight of. CAR COMMANDEERED A two-seater car belonging to Bort Jackson was commandeered by joyriders late on Alonday night, states a Carterton telegram. The car was loft in a street while the owner transacted business prior to leaving town. When he returned the car had disappeared. The police have the matter in hand. PROMINENT CITIZEN DEAD A Waipawa telegram states: Air H. N. Rathbone, who was struck by a lorry, died this morning without recovering consciousness. Deceased, who was 58, leaves a widow and four of a grown-up family. He had been prominently indentified with the civic life of the community for the past 30 years and was seven years Alayor. BODY FOUND IN GARDEN A middle-aged man named TTc!ge Alfred Holm was found yesterday afternoon fatally shot in his*garden at Inglewood. It is believed that he had been shooting sparrows and had fallen causing the gun to explode, the charge entering his head. He was a married man anil was believed to have come from Australia. SHOPLIFTER GETS GAOL A young married woman. Afargarct Kirkwood Moughton, aged 24, admitted 18 charges of theft and two of shoplifting at Gisborne. The police information .disclosed the fact that since the beginning of the year the woman had followed a career of shoplifting. The declined to grant the privileges of probation, and sentenced her to three months’ imprisonment. NOT AN EPIDEMIC Nine deaths were registered in the Thames district on Monday and Tuesday of last week. This was not a sudden epidemic nor the result of a serious disaster, but merely those for the month of June which were only able to be sent in when the undertaker had recovered from an illnss. INTERESTING COINCIDENCE Over forty years, in a small town on the West Coast, two boys were neighbours, their parents’ residences being separated by an unoccupied section. Last week the pair became neighbours again, this time in Whangarei. Strange to say, an unoccupied section stands between the two residences. j A LITTLE DUCK .! Laying consistently since April 8, y 1927, a duck owned by Airs G. H. ,// Register, of 91, Prospect Terrace, v Afount Eden. Auckland, has at present I a total of 428 eggs to its credit. Last I year was the first year the duck laid, ' and since April, 1927, to date it has missed only about 15 days, the days | being at odd times during the period. I The bird has just finished moulting, I but this did not affect its laying. MIND AND MATTER That there is a good* deal in the | theory of mind suggestion over bodily 1 ills was fully demonstrated in Eketahuna to a local resident. Suffering from raging toothache he was given a couple of aspros and some water to take with them. In about ten min- i utes all trace of the toothache had disappeared, but he found later that he had swallowed the water and had left the white tablets on the table.