DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEUUAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

VERDICT on THE LEOPARD. AUCKLAND. Oct. 12. “found drowned" was the verdict returned at the inquest to-day on the body of the female leopard that escaped from the zoo nearly four weeks ago. After il bad been picked up in Tamaki yesterday afternoon, tbe body was taken back to the Zoo and this morning it was skinned and subjected to a postmortem examination. The bodv was in a remarkably good state of presorvatioii. The hair although it is inclined to come out. is also well pro-

The Curator of the Zoo. Mr L. T. Griffin. supports the theory that the animal became stuck in the mud in the creek at the back of .Jogger's Tannery. and was caught by the rising tid•• and washed out into the harbour. It had probably been in the water for a week. No traces of any poisoning from the tan hath were found in the body, and the animal had evidently had very little in the way of food for some time before her death. When the body was taken to the Zoo. the authorities mad" various measurements, and these proved beyond doubt that the animal could never have got out through the liars of the cage. How she escaped still uemains a mystery.

KILLED BY TRAIN. DA I{C AR VI LI.E. October 13. A single man named Nicholson, who was employed hv the Public Works Department on t lit* railway construct ion works at the Pukehuia-Waintira section of the North Auckland railway, was killed in the Tokatoka Tunnel yesterday afternoon by the Public Works tqain. It is surmised deceased who was off work yesterday, was asleep in the tunnel when the train i-amo along and ran over the body which was fright fu Ily mu ogled. POISONED BY MOTHBALL. WANGANUI. October 13.

Patricia Caroline Howard, aged nearly tliiee. ate a mothball in mislake lor a lolly oil October 7th. A doctor was summoned and a stomach pump was list'll and the child appeared lo bo all right for two days but Piter developed other symptoms and died. The inquest disclosed that the active ingredient in the mothball was nnptlioIciic, which was veil recognised among poisons.

STOLEN HOODS IN ('EM KTER Y AUCKLAND. October 13

A young man arrested on a charge of burglary took the detectives to all old tomb in Syuionds Street cemetery, where they found two gramophones, and a violin alleged to have been slulcll from tin l Lyric, Talkeries. The vault showed evidence of habitation. In another part of I lit- cemetery the detectives found more property behind a tombstone.

Frederick Oswald Snkoy, aged 33. appeared at the police court this morning charged with breaking, entering and theft and was remanded to October 221 id.