TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 April 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

ll'BU I'HESS ASSOCIATION. 1

BOV BURNED TO DEATH

Christchurch, This Day

A fatal fire occurred at Wools ton on Saturday night when a five-roomed house, occupied bw Thomas Jago, was burned to the ground. Jago removed his son. a boy of three from the Building, just alter the lire .started and then returned to the house and brought out his grandson, a boy of eight. Subsequently a younger l>oy was missed, and later his charreit remains were found in the debris. A verdict of accidental death was returned. FATAL ACCIDENT AT STUDHOLM. Timaru. This Day. (Jhai'les Downes, a single man, aged 2."> wan killed at Stiidholin on Saturday evening. He stepped off the train before it stopped, slipped and was dragged under. His head and one leg were crushed and he died halF an hour later, without recovering consciousness. THE ELECTION PETITION. Wellington. This Day. The Full Court gave its reasons this morning for its opinion expressed on Friday last, that both the Bay of Islands and Taumaruiiui election petitions were in time. In the first mentioned case the Court held that the time within which the petition must be presented, namely 28 days, ran from the amended declaration, published after the recount by order of the Magistrate's Court. It held that the law as now existing was different from that upon which the Wnirarapa case, in which it was held that the time ran from the endorsement oi the writ, was decided, and that that case wan now of no authority. It further held that the words of section 15)0" of the 7x>-is-lafive Act, 1908, show that the time must run from the declaration made in pursuance of section 1:1 nf the Act of 1900. which is a declaration in form ■No. 22 of the schedule to the Act of 1!MM). The. decision on the latter point decider the question of time in favour of the petitioner. In the Tauinariiimi case tlie Court intimated that it would givo its judgment on the question as to wTfethor the roll was conclusive to-morrow. THE KING v. MeLROD. Jn the case Rex. v. AfcLeiid, tlie ca.se where the shooting expert in.jured a member of the audience in attempting to shoot off the ash of a cigarette held in the mouth of the injiwed person, the Court of Appeal held that tlie prisoner was guilty of all the offences charged against him. namely of common assault, of assault with actual bodily harm, and of causing harm under such eireumstaneiis that if death had been caused thereby the prisoner would have been guilty of manslaughter. DANNEVTPKTC MPXrCTPALTTY. Dannevirke. Tliiw Day. .Mr A. Ransom was elected Mayor of Dannevirke to-day unopposed. This is the fourth year in succession that he has been elected Mayor. Fifteen nominations were received for tfie nine couneillorshFps vacant.