DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

THREE WAGONS DERAILED,

(,By leicgraph—Pre6s Aacuviaiion). ✓ EK ETA HUN A, July 31. A report lias just readied here that three waggons of a g.ods train are derailed on Hie other side,of the tunnel from Eactahuna. No further particulars are available and it is not known the extent the services will he delayed. A COLLEGE, STUDENT. WELLINGTON, July 31. A Victoria University College student, h. \\. oi. White, M.Se., leaves on Eli day lor England. He holds a post graduate scholarship in science, and has been awarded the Strathcona studentship for St. John’s College, Cambridge. White, who has been working under Professor Florence, will continue his work in Cavendish Laboratorv under Sir Ernest Rutherford.

CLERK COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

WELLINGTON, July 31

’Walter Whitehouse, 59, a clerk was committed for sentence'to-clay by Mr Page, S.M. on a charge of failure to account for £658 to Te Aro Loan Discount and Investment Coy. David Swift, aged 21, was committed for sentence , for burglary at Island Ray.

(INVER,CAItG ILL’S CONTRIBUTION INVERCARILL, July 31. . The Mayor of Invercargill to-day remitted a further £BOO to the central earthquake fund making the total, to date INQUEST VERDICT. GISBORNE, July 31. A verdict of siucide by drowning whilst in a state of acute mental demental depression was returned by the coroner at the conclusion of the inquest on the death of Mrs. Ellen Spivey 46. whose body was found in Mangapapa Creek. It seems that the cause /of this unfortunate woman’s death was undoubtedly the treatment she received from her husband said Coroner P. H. Harper.S.M. “As a-re-sult of his conduct and the Ess of his affection her mind and health were so much affected that she took her own life,-ail'd did not know what she was doing.” GISBORNE, July 31. At the inquest into the death of Adair, an Orchardist reported yesterday a verdict of death from natural causes was returned.