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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1920, Page 4

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THE BRUCE SEAT. DUNEDIN, April 5

Nominations for the Bruce seat .in the House of Representatives, rendered vacant by the appointment of Sir James AR en to the High Commissionerebip, closed to-day. Mr James Begg and Mr John Edie were nominated. A FIRE. AUCKLAND, April 5. A fire—the second within three weeks—broke out in Mennie’s biscuit and confectioner} - factory, Albert street, at 5.30 a.in. to-day. The building was in process of renovation. Nobody had been on the premises since Thursday, and the origin of the outbreak is therefore a mystery. The fire began on the top floor which was gutted. A large amount of raw material was The damage extends to rAjll over £IOOO. The insurances total £6OOO, in the New Zealand, Standard and National offices. HARBOUR COMMISSION. WAIROA, This Day. The Harbour Board at a special meeting on Monday decided to appoint a commission at a fee of 450 guineas, W. Ferguson, J. Blair Mason, and Cyrus Wiliams, now sitting as a Harbour Commission at Gisborne, to make a joint preliminary report on Waikokopu and indicate the form in which a new harbour should be constructed.

SCOUTMASTER DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. While teaching a boy to swim in the sea at Pleasant Point, New Brighton this afternoon, Scoutmaster Bligh siKWjbnly Lank. Although two boats were quickly put out, no trace of the man could be seen, and the body is unrecovered yet. RAILWAY EMPLOYEE KILLED. WELLINGTON, April 5. A railway messenger named Edward Lane, aged 42 years, residing at 117, Thorndon quay, was knocked down by a railway truck on .Saturday afternoon and was so severely injured that lie died at the hospital at 11.35 o’clock on Saturday night. Lane, who was employed at the Lambton fetation, was found under a truck in the railway yard apparently in a critical condition. Lano was removed to tlie hospital where lie was found to ho suffering from a fracture of the right forearm a fracture of the pelvis and rupture o the bladder. Deceased, who was a single man, had no relatives in New Zealand.

DETERMINED SUICIDE. WELLINGTON, April 5 A single man named James Casey, aged 50 years, residing with his sister, Mrs McDonnell, a farmer of Ngaio, was found dead handing in a cow-shed at the farm at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. The deceased was last seen alive between 6 and 7 p.m. on Saturday and was apparently in his usual good health and spirits. The body was suspended by a leg-rope, fastened round the neck, with the other end attached to a beam.

WOMAN’S SUDDEN DEATH. WELLINGTON, April 5. A tragic affair occurred at Worser Bay, when a married woman named Edith Louisa Bourne, who resided in the vicinity collapsed and died almost instantly when emerging from the cen after a swim. It appears that deceased was in the water with her husband, John Alfred Bourne, who was teaching his little son to swim asore. She was seen to fall, by some onlookers who carried her ashore apparently lifeless. Dr Line was summoned, but on examining the body, pronounced life extinct. The remains were brought into the morgue. Death is believed to have been due to heart trouble.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. WELLINGTON, April 16. E. H. Wilmot, Surveyor-General was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with indecent exposure and remanded bail being fixed at £75, and a surety of a similar amount. INFLUENZA CASES INCREASE. WELLINGTON April 6. Hie cases of influenza reported in Wellington Health district during tlie week ended noon on Monday, numbered 174, against 78 in the preceding week. The number of pneumonic cases (2) was the same each week. The increase is accounted for almost entirely by outbreaks at Scot’s College and Wellington College. Scot’s College has had 63 cases of influenza, one ease being pneumonic. All the others wore mild. Wellington College has had ten mild cases.

Tho medical authorities do not consider that the figures disclose any cause for anxiety. The. great majority of eases reported are very mild and the proportion of pneumonic cases shows no tendency to increase.

ACCIDENT INVERCARGILL, April 5. A motor-boat accident occurred at Baliia on Friday, by which two men, Alfred Millwood (40) and Charles Ewald Miller (50), both married, lost their lives. Tho bodies have not been recovered.

CUSTOMS REVENUE. AUCKLAND, April 6. The amount received by the Government in Customs revenue, including excise duties, during tlie financial year ended March 31st. was a record. The total for the first time exceeded £5,000, 000. The Minister for Customs (Sir Wm. Heroes), states the exact amount is £5,185,363, or over a million more than the total of the, previous year. Ordinary Customs revenue was £4,829,974 or £429,974 more than the estimate of £4,400,000. Tlie previous year’s total was £3,830,681, the increase being thus . nearly a million. The excise lieor duty ' collected during the year totalled £355.378. Tlie estimate was £270,000, or £BS 378 less than the sum received. The amount of excise beer duty received during the previous year was £273,334, or £82,044 less than the past years’ sum.