DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PNEUM ONIC INFLUENZA. AUCKLAND, June 23 u For the lust, two months only a few k cases of pneumonic influenza have been notified in Auckland health district, is All were recorded during the present b month. An intimation of a fourth case i- was received yesterday. » DEATH FltOM POISON, r ; WELLINGTON, Juno 22 At the inquest on Roderick M’Lean, 1 found dead on the steamer Mammon, - the Coroner found that death was due to poisoning, self administered. De- • ceased was a single man, a labourer, with no fixed address. i A NARROW ESCAPE. . INVERCARGILL, Juno 22 A miraculous escape from death occurred when a motor-car crashed into the Tnvoreargill-Tuntnporo train at Wallacetown this afternoon. The driver of the car on seeing the train swerved in the same direction as the train was going and this probably saved lii.s life. The train tossed the car off the line, smashing it. hopelessly, hut the driver was only slightly bruised. DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. MASTER TON, June 22. Michael Mollo.v, aged 73, a native of Ireland, a resident of Masterton for forty years, died suddenly while gathering wood in the Waipoua River today. At an inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to heart failure following exertion.