DOMINION NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2365, 4 December 1908, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

FATAL FALL FROM A TREE

[Pkess Association.]

WHANGAREI, Dec. 3

Information Ims been received by the police that a- man named Scott fell from a kauri tree atParakao yesterday, while gathering gum, resulting in the dislocation of lliis neck. An inquest is being held on the body. DEATH FROM BURNS.

AUCKLAND, Dec. 3. Mrs. Andrews, received at the hospital on Tuesday, suffering from burns, died last night.

MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED

HAMILTON, Dee. 3. Ivaiha. Haimona'and her child were drowned in the AVaipai river this morning.

TINNED EISI-I POISONING. WELLINGTON, Dee. 3. Last night Mrs Atrhur R/iven, wife of a baker on Clyde Quay, her three children, and Ethel Cook,. the servant. girl, became seriously ill after eating tinned sardines. A doctor was summoned, and after he had attended to them tiliev were taken to the hospital. Their condition is somewhat better to-day.

DEATH OE AN OLD SETTLER. , NAPIER, Dec. 3. A very old identity in the person of G. T. Fanning passed .away this morning. Deceased, who was born in Ireland in 1830, arrived in the colony in 1853, and settled in this district. On the formation of the Provincial Council he \\4 is appointed clerk, which position ho held until the abolition, of the provinces, when he was appointed clerk .and treasurer of tlio County Council, which position lie held for nearly 30 years.

FEILDING WATER SUPPLY. FEILDING, Doc. 3. Ratepayers of Feilding Borough yesterday carried a poll to maose a £4OOO (loan to bring the water supply arrangements to perfection. HIGH SCHOOL FOR TAIHAPE The chairman of tho Wanganui Education Board has received an nntiimtion that the Government intends to Institute a high school at Taihape. KILLED BY A BULL. A man named Humphreys, at Taonui, was gored by >a bull on Monday. He had his chest ripped open and several ribs broken. He died early this mbrmnge