DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —r£R PRESS ASSOCIATION.] POISONED BN GAS. AUCKLAND EAST. October 29. The body of James Alexander Camphell. a retired master mariner, who has been missing since October 18, was found in a workshop under his house at Takutai Street, Parnell. Beside it was a gas tube which had been let down from the gas ;et in Ms bedroom, beside a wardrobe and through it hole bored in the flocr in sueli a manner as to escape notice until a careful search was made. After his disappearance, a scircli throughout the city was made. r l lie searchers stood within a few feet id I is body without noticing it. He resided with his sister, who was his only i(native in New Zealand. RHODES SCHOLARS. THE SFLECTION COAI.MTfTEENY ELLINGTON, Oct. hi As Australia and Canada now eltoj- 11 their committees of selection lor the Rhodes scholars, it wa.- suggested at yesterday’s meeting i-lmi New Zealand should follow suit its soon as circumstances permit. The present eotnnMtee numbers seven, o: whom two are ox scholars. All told there are only (five jit the Dominion, four having been hilled in the war. The other 10 reside 0111 side New Zealand. The prop e\ ion i s very large and ii was not Cecil Rhodes' intention, as shown by the terms of the bequest, to encourage scholars to leave their own country. HE ATH TH ROUGH SCALDS. NELSON*. Ootoiler 31. Randolph Alurray. aged 3J. an inmate of the Convent, died at the hospital as the result of scalds. Evidence at the inquest showed that the child, in the temporary absence of the fjister-in-Chargci, opened (he door leading front the nursery Lo the wash-house and turned on a tap of boiling water. A verdict of accidental death, no blame being attachable to the Convent staff, was returned.