MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 2 April 1913, Page 10

MASTERTON NOTES.

— _* _• . . (From: Our Special Correspondent.) : Masicrton, 'April J. •• 'An old iidentity of this district, in the person of Mr. Jas. Gordon, passed awaylast, night, at. the"age of 90 years. Ho arrived in the Dominion in" 1852. Ho leaves a grown-up family \jf threo sons anil three daughters. -N'nrse Nicklcss, of Wellington,, was this afternoon appointed li.v the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to succeed Nurse' Gates on the district nurs- . ins I .staff. 'Two, men, named. Ernest Albert Stevens, and Daniel Morris, were last night arrested' by Detective Andrews on a charge of being idle and disorderly per- 1 sons. . The detective stated in Court today that the men, who had a long 'list 1 of convictions acrainst them, had been I loafing atioul Wellington for months. They were- each sentenced to three - months' hard labour. Mr. S. Inder, I'oslmaster at Maslerton, , who has been transferred to Oliristchurch, j leaves for I lie southern city on Friday. , .At the f.djourned inquestio-day on the . body of Deter Jacobsen, wlip was burnt J to death at Featherston, the coroner re- j turned a vcrdiet "That deceased was burnt to death in his own residence, but ■ how the fire occurred there was no evidence to show, but that both men were e dnmk nt tho time of the outbreak of tho " fire."" The plucky, action of Constable , Baker and Joseph I-ligeison in rescuing, Patrick Grossey. from Hie building is to J; be' brought under the notice of tho Hu- f mane Society. —1 The demand for Warner's Rust-proof I Corsets is better than ever. The new ,■ long-skirted styles are mostly inquired } li'J"'*,,. livery pair guaranteed, rcijiember.- 1 Wellington Drapers.—Advt. * HIGGINSON & MACSHANET ' Sharebrokern and Accountants, . 113 i'J-MTHKRSTON -ST., WELLINGTON, £ Telegrams—"ilarmiou* i.