HASTINGS NEWS.
(By Tolcsraph.-Special Correspondent.) Hastinns, Auril 1. Tho two-and-a-half-year-old hoy of Mr. ■T. S. Hunt, of Victoria SI reel, Hastings, found a bollle containing .strychnine and other tabloid drugs, and soon afterwards told his mother that ho had "eaten all Hip lollies." Medical aid was obtained, but the little fellow died within an hour. The collections in llasliiißs in aid of the Napier Hospital on Saturday resulted in the sum of JCI73 l'2s. 3d. being obtained. Mrs. H. M. Campbell entertained (he collectors at: luncheon and afternoon tea. Two yomiß ladies. Miss Robinson and another, worn engaged in a mountain rirtn from Woimnrinn yesterday, when one fell coming down a stiff incline. Miss Robinson rode over her, and sustained a compound fracture of_ tho arm. Th» vital statistics for March are:— Births, 20; marriages. !); deaths. 3. There is n. movement nn foot to have the local posl office, os well as the telegraph office, kept open from 8 a.m. If\ S p.m. A concrt was held in the Theatre last nvoniiicr for the benefit of a union official. Mr. Gavin Allen, wh" was rornntlv burnt nut, mid resulted in the stmi of ~£IG being collected.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1404, 2 April 1912, Page 5
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196HASTINGS NEWS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1404, 2 April 1912, Page 5
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