TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.j SALE OF NATIVE RESERVE. TIMARU, Oct. 7. The Native owners of a reserve of l 6 acres at Maori Hill, within the Timaru Borough, and close to Caroline Bay, at a meeting at Temuka to-day resolved Jo accept the offer of £12,000 made by the Borough Council. The latter will put a loan proposal before the ratepayers. FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND Oct. 7. The decomposed body of a woman named Alice Allcorn, was found in a house in Parnell to-day. Deceased lived alone, and had evidently died in bed from natural causes, The body had remained undiscovered since about the middle of August. Little is known about deceased ,or whether she had any relatives in the Dominion. ' INQUEST VERDICT. DUNEDIN, Oct. 7. sThe adjourned inquest on the boy, .John Douglas Inglish, who died during an operation at the public Hospital on Tuesday of last week was resumed today. The result of the' post mortem showed that death was due to shock, supervening on an i rgent , pi ration tor suppuration of the right middle ear, the patient’s condition being aggravated by pneumonia, and no blame was attachable to anyone. A verdict was returned accordingly. THIEVES AT WORK. AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. The theft of money from investors on the totalisator at Avondale races las week, was the subject of complaint to the detective on duty. It is alleged that in -several instances, investors in purchasing a £1 ticket for which they tendered a £5 note, did not receive any | change. On the second day of the ( meeting, detectives set a watch, with ( the result that four Jien wfit appear at | the police court on Monday m connection with the