NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 19, 17 October 1907, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

■ $ [BT TELEGRAPH. —FRESS ASSOCIATION.] ' ENGINEER'S TRAGIC DEATH. SHOOTS HIMSELF WHILE TEMPORARILY DERANGED. ~ ,•: Auckland, October 16. ' About midnight the police received a telephone message asking them to send an ambulanco to the office of the tramway clcc-. trical engineer. Though the office was lighted, they received no response to their knocking., On entering they found Andrew ' Wilkes, employed by the Tramway Company as an electrical engineer, dead, reclining in his chair, with a bullet, through his head. Thero was a revolver on the Hoot. Wilkea was a young man, and had been in the company's omploy five months. Ho had been' suffering from influenza in a severe form.At the inquest this afternoon it was stated • that deceased's' wifo had returned to England about two months ago. Their domestic relations were'-not happy. Tho sergeant of police stated that a telephone mossago was rccoivcd, presumably from deceased, to sendan ambulanco round about 1 o'clock,'as something was happening at tho moment of tolepHoning. A verdict tliat deceased had shot himself while temporarily deranged was returned. BAPTIST UNION. Auckland, Octobor 16. The Baptist Conferonco, with a view to celebrating the silver jubilee of tho Union, resolved to raise not less than £1000 for the purpose of establishing an annuity fund for aged and infirm ministers. . It was agreed to invito the Rev. William Lamb to tako up work in Gisborno for two years at £200 per aimum. ' ' Tho financial statement showed tho estimated receipts to bo £1000, and estimated expenditure £1028. Of tho latter, £S6O" was allocated for Homo Mission work. Tho annual meeting of tho Baptist Women's Missionary Union elected tho following officers: — President, Mrs. H. H. Smcoton; treasurer and secretary, Miss Spedding; vicepresidents, Otago, Mrs. Mason; Canterbury, Mrs. Thornton; Wellington, Mrs. Blackburno; Auckland, Mrs. Kirlcwood. Tlio Conferonco instructed its. executive to movo" in tho matter of tho formation. of a Baptist Church in the Congregational Church, Tiniaru; with a view to a' settlement in a united causo. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT. Auckland, Ootobor 16. Au elderly man namod Jdenjamin Clifton Paul, a plumber, residing in Grey Lynn, . was lpookod down and killed by a tram while crossing Ponßonby, Road to-nicht.