COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 10

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS ' CENTRES WAIRARAPA ITEMS .Mr. Thomas Anickett, an old settler of Whakatnki, 4jed yesterday, aged 6i years. As the result of an outbreak of fire towards midnight on Saturday a large stable and other commodious outbuildings at tho rear of the Royal Hotel, Fcatherston, ■wore, destroyed, tho loss, borne purely by the State Fire Office, being a heavy one. Through tho excellent work of the Fire Brigade the hotel was protected from becoming ignited. An inquest was held at Martinborough before Mr. R. <I. Eton, district coroner, on the infant child of Mark Napier Hardie, watchmaker and jeweller, residing at Ma.rtinborough. Tho evidence showed that the father of tho child, which wns fourteen months old, had been using a strong solution of potassium cyanide for cleaning a ring for a oustomer. Ho placed tho cup down on the floor of tho workshop alongside the bench. Ho was called away to the shop to serve a customer, and after that wen to dinner. Immediately he sat down he thought: of the cup of poison on the floor: He rushrd into the workshop and found that tho child 'had crawled into the shop in the short space of time and drank the quantity left. He immediately ran with the child round to Dr. Webb, who administered an emetic, but the child was failing fast. Artificial respiration ■was used, but the child sank rapidly and died within three-quarters of an hour of the occurrence. The coroner, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of accidntal poisoning with potassium syanide.> ,

Corporal Colin Hendry, of the E.A. M.C., who has been nearly four years on active service, returned to Masterton on Friday, last. Corporal Hendry left New Zealand with the , Seventh Reinforcements, and was on Gallipoli at the evacuation. He has been with the N.Z. Division ever since, and passed through tho whole of the engagements in France without sustaining a scratch.

Dr. Archer Hosking, of Masterton, has for some time post been P.M.O. at a hospital' at 'Walfrnvon-tlic-Tlianies. lieturned 'soldiers state that Dr. Hosking has been working very hard, and tho wonder is that ho has not', completely broken down.

The many friends in Masterton and Mauricoville of Mr. William .Tessen will regret to hear that his 6eco'nd~Bon, Gunner Donald .Tessen,' of the 11th Battery, N.Z.E.F.; died at the. Endell Street Military Hospital, .London, on -February 23.. The deceased soldior, 'who was 2!) years of age, went away with tho Tenth Reinforcements, and was on active service in France until after the armistice. The cause of death was pneumonia, following an attack of influenza.

The death occurred on Saturday afternoon of a highly respected resident of Masterton in the person of Mr. '.Tames Colway. Deceased, who was 54 years of ngl, was engaged for many years farming at Homebusli. He subsequently sold his farm and paid a visit to England. On returning to Now Zealand deceased engaged in farming at Knituna. and later settled down in Masterton. During the past two years deceased had suffered considerably.