DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

INQUEST VERDICT. , (By Telegraph—Press Association). NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 1 At an adjourned inquiry into ifi. death of Phillip Etheridge Blackmail, who died during an operation at tin public hospital on November 20th. ■while under an anaesthetic, tho Coro, nor found that deatli was due to heart failure, and that no blame was attach ed to the hospital authorities.

WARNING' TO SHIPPING

WELLINGTON. Dec. 1

’liio General Post Office announce the following warning was received from tho iPostmaster at Kaikoura:—

“ The captain of the .steamer Cygnet reports a large log about sixty feel in length is floating one mile east o! Kaikoura Peninsular, and is dangerous to shipping.”

130 immigrants arrive BY ROTOR UA. AUCKLAND, Dec. 1. New settlers numbering 130 arrived from England to-day by the Rotorua They included 32 boys and G girls for Flock House, and 23 domestic servants. The remainder comprised immigrants who have come to the Dominion to join their families.

FARM TRAGEDY. YOUT’il SHOOT'S BROTHER AND SUICIDES. HAMILTON, December 1. A double tragedy occurred oil a Harm at Tirau, at 2.30 tlt is nn . -mg. when Stanley Clmpnmn, aged 2.1, shot bis brother, Bruce Chapman, aged sixteen, and then shot himself. Both died before medical aid could lie summoned. f Stanley Chapman bad been depressed owing to insomnia and worry. lbe relations of the brothers had been coidial. The rest of the family were asleep when the trageoy orcmied. and no one witnessed or heard signs of a struggle. The deceased were the sons of Mr Thos. Chapman, a well-known lirau settlor.