NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 August 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Determined Suicide

Dtjnedin, This Day,

At the inquest on Alfred Smith a verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane. Deceased was an engineer with M'Gavin, Smith, and Co., brewers, and had been drinking somewhat heavily of late. His brother-in-law walked home part of the way with him, and when he asked him about the gun he said that he was going out shooting next day, and invited his brother-in-law to join with him. The latter stopped to have a look at a dance going on, and when he reached his house his sister asked him to go to his room, saying Smith was foolishly discharging a blank cartridge. On going in he found Smith dead.. Death of a Trooper. Weldington, August 9. Trooper Heenan of the Fourth Contingent died at the hospital early this morning from abscess of the liver. Obituary. Cheistchubch, This Day. The Rev. H. C. M. Watson, the wellknown incumbent of. St. John's Church, died yesterday at Bendigo (Victoria), where he had gone to see his brother. The Telegraph Tote Swindlers. Chmstchtjboh, August 8. In the Supreme Court to-day Charles Frederick Winstanley, telegraph operator, and John Mouat, commercial traveller, were convicted on charges of conspiracy to def' aud Patterson Bros, bookmakers of Wellington, and of cheating in betting on tha sport of horse racing. A sentence of six months' imprisonment was passed on each.

iteooYers for Over-paid Taxes. Dunedin, August 8. The preliminary phase of an unusual case came before tho Supreme Court in banco. The Assets Co. formed in Edinburgh to take over the assets of the Glasgow Bank, commenced with a capital of halt' a million. The agent in New Zealand had, therefore, to pay a fee of jE2OO per annum to carry on the business. The capital wan subsequently reduced, and the fee payable would only amount to £SO, but the Now Zealand agent was not informed of the change, and for ten years went on paying £2OO, thus contributing £1,500 unnecessary to the revenue of the colony. It is now proposed to sue the Crown to recover this amount. The question argued to-day was whether the claim was barred by the Statue of Limitations or the Grown Suits Act, on which point the decision was reserved.

Child Drowned. Woodville, This Day,

A four year old son of Mr Curtis, sawmiller, was drowned in a creek at Papatatiea yesterday. Sickness in Woodville.

There is a large number of cases of scarlet fever in the town and district just now..

Honolulu Shipping Trade, Auckland, This Day.

Kunst, of Somoa, who bought the a'earner Somoa from the Union Co. for the Honolulu trade, found her coal consumption too high and sent her to Japan. Ho is reported to have two 4000 tonners to meet Germany in the inter-Island trade.