TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

'FKn PHEBS ASSOCIATION. —OOHYRIOUT AN. INQUEST. DUNEDIN, This Day. Ail inquest was opened today on the body of a newly borp infant found in a sack o» St. Clair beach on Thursday with a piece qf linen tied tightly round the. week. Dr Evans said the body was fully developed and well nourished. There was a circular, pressure quirk on tbq neck. Me. was of opinion the child had lived and that the cause qf death was asphyxia. There was no water on the lungs shewing it bad not been drowned, There must have been some interference with the air supply. A constable said the bag bad apparently been in the sea, but it could not have been there long. It was found at high water mark. The Coroner adjourned tho enquiry sine die.

A RECORD PRICK. fIAWERA, Jan. U, The record price for town property was touched at an auction sale to-day, when a section in the heart of the town, facing High St. with a. thirty-four feet frontage, realised £225 per toot. Other sections, facing a- new sfrepjj, brought £lO9 per fooy, TWO-Ul’ AT GRANITY. WESTPORT, Jan. 22. Eight men at (Iranitv, were lined £lO each, for playing two-up, by Magistrate Maunsell. The case was on all fours with the recent Wanganui case. Constable Kidd lived in a dug-out at Granity to catch the men.