DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. MYSTERIOUS BULLET. .MARTON', Sept. 3. There was an extraordinary incident on the railway at Westoe Hill, live miles from Marten, on Wednesday afternoon. It has just been revealed. A mixed train, from Palmerston North to Mar ton, was moving slowly up the hill about 4 p.m., when the guard, J. Pickering, heard a shot tired. Almost .simultaneously, the wooden 1 lyunework above the window of the rear van splintered. The missile ricochotted against a steel plate near the roof, which was dented. The guard was sitting only a few inches below. It is evident from the position of the marks on the van that the shot was fired from the top of the embankment. No missile was found. There is no explanation of the outrage. OBITUARY. BLENHEIM, September 4. The death occurred yesterday afternoon under painfully sudden circuinstances <>! Air Edward Henry Benny, one of Blenheim’s best known and most highly esteemed public men. Mi Penny had been in indifferent health for two or three weeks. He. was apparently in fairly good health in the morning, hut later in the alternoon was found dead in bed, having apparently passed away quietly ill his sleep. PROPOSED AMALGAMATION. DUNEDIN, Sept. 1. At a meeting of Directors of Kawarua Coy. and Committee of Representatives of the general hotly of claim holders, a suggestion that it would he in the interests of all if an amalgamation of all the companies and interests concerned could he brought about, was favourably considered, and a committee representing both parties set up to consider the development of such scheme. The feeling was that the undertaking would then be on a more solid foundation to carry out tin; necessary works to ensure the success of the scheme. The meeting agreed that the dam was a complete success. It had performed the functions for which it was designed and constructed. and That .the volume of water at present passing down Kawaraii was due to molting snows and the consequent freshes on Shotover. Arrow and Nevis river watersheds.

AYELLING TON CARILLON. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. There have been 77 applications received for 49 hells of the proposed carillon, and the whole have now been allotted. The tost ranges from £3O t r £440 per hell. A SUICIDE. INVERCARGILL, Sept. 3. The adjourned inquest on James McDonald, who was found fatally wounded in the head with a rifle bullet, at Burwood Station, on August 23rd., concluded here to-day. The police produced two letters, written by the deceased in which he stated that, owing to the suffering lie was going through, due to neuritis, he intended to take his life. Tlie coroner returned a verdict of suicide. MAN DROWNED. AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. William Frederick Jones, aged 47 years, was drowned, tins afternoon in AVlitiu Creek, Now Lynn, through the capsizing of a seven-foot dinghy which was being used for the first time. His brother, "Herbert Junes, clung to the overturned boat and was pluekily rescued by Osv/.ild McMillan Williams.