VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 20 April 1911, Page 4

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association. —coryntcuT. 1< WELCOME RAIN. HASTINGS, April, 19—Point fiftyfour inches of rain has fallen hero since Saturday. There aro prospects of more rain to-night. REMANDED. GISBORNE, April 19—To-day James I Kerr Easton was remanded until Friday i on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of James Blanche. Bail was allowed. LIQUOR SEIZED. GISBORNE, April 19— The police have made a seizure of a five gallon keg of beer in a Maori kainga. A prosecution is likely t oresult. FOUND DEAD. 1 TIMARU, April 19—The police have : received word that William Blair, aged 20, was found dead in a paddock at Fairlie, 39 miles from Timaru. i TWO MINERS DROWNED, i INVERCARGILL, Ajril 19.—Two • miners working at Roundhill named Joi seph Bates and Frank Smith were found ' drowned. They were working in a hole, and it appears that a fall of sludge pinned them before they could extricate themseives. iiie water rose and drowned them. Bates is 37 years of age and leaves a widow and several children. Smith is single.