N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 6

N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

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(By Telegraph—

Woman Found Hanged Aliee Jessie Sarah Rentoul, aged 62. the wife of Robert Rentoul, a farmer of Wantwood, in the Wairau Valley district, was found hanged, on Saturday afternoon in a woolshed. — Blenheim, Sunspots Observed Observations of the sun made at the Dominion observatory to-day show considerable sunspot activity. Groups reported last week are now in a more central position. One or these, iii the Southern Hemisphere, i of the remarkable lengtfi, of 240,000 miles, or about equal to the distance between the moon and the earth. — Wellington. Lightning Kills Cows Two valtiable young dairy cows owned by Mr Frank Magee, of Chudleigh, were struck by lightning and killed at about 2.30 p.m. yesterday. The lightning was particularly vivid. Several persons in the vicinity state that they heard a noise like a slight explosion, xollowing an exceptional flash. Both cows were standing near a wire fence — Te Aroha. Nepia Returns » George Nepia, the well-known All Black, arrived in Gisborne on Saturday, en route to his home up the Coast, after his League seasons in England. The celebrated All Blaelc expressed his pleasure at being "down under" again, commenting that to • n exile, the Old Land can be very lonely. George Nepia has achieved an enviable reputation for his Maori songs on gramophone records, these having proved very popular both in England and New Zealand. He said that so far he had not made any plans, but it was uot likely he would be heard on any new records in the immediate future. — Gisborne. Position Abused A case of interest to trappers was heard in the Magistrate's Court at Lumsden, when Leslie Alexander Murrell, of Manapouri, a ranger under the Animals Protection and Gamo Act and a holder of a trapper 's licence, was convicted on a charge of taking opossums by poisoning. In imposing a fine of £10 and costs totalling £12 5/-, the Magistrate, Mr W. H. Freeman, said it had been made abundantly clear to him that the line of 136 opossum skins, which were the subject of the charge, had been poisoned and that the defendapt had abused his position as ranger.— Invercargill.