DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

FOUND DEAD

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NAPIER, December 20

A married woman, Dorothy Emily Doreen, a nurse by occupation, was found her dead on her bed in her residence by her husband when lie returned from work last evening. Deceased had beeii attended by a doctor for a weak heart.

AN INQUIRY

NAPIER, December 20. An inquest was held this morning on Sarah Jane Alderman, a widow who dided after having teeth extracted under an anaesthetic at Napier hospital. A verdict was returned that deceased died from heart failure due to the shock of the operation, combined with the effect of pyrrohea.

ILLEGIAL RAFFLE. WELLINGTON, December 20

An unauthorised raffle by which it was hoped to obtain 'funds in aid of the Club resulted in the appearance in court of Frank Chapman, representative of Mflrunui Surf and Life-saving Club, who pleaded guilty. A fine of £5 was imposed. The Chief Detective remarked that illegal lotteries were fairly prevalent, hut it was not an easy matter to get at those responsible. Chapman, a member of the executive of the Club elected to be charged when the police paid a visit to the clubhouse.

DRUNKEN DRIVER, ASHBURTON. Dec. 29. William Whalley was Cued £lO and delicensed for twelve months for being intoxicated in charge of a car. Defendant thinking he. was at a crossing ran into a railway yard bringing his car against a stationary rake of trucks. DUNEDIN WOOL SALES. DUNEDIN, Dec. 20. The first Dunedin wool sale opened this morning. There was a full bench of buyers and a catalogue of 20,000 bales, the wool generally being up to the average. 1 The sale opened with prices firm at late rates and showed a tendency slightly in favour of sellers, due apparently to the lighter condition of the half-bred wools than at Timaru. Crossbred merinos sold about par to Timaru. There was a big drop compared with the first sale here hist year, in some cases the reduction being . as much as tenpence. The best prices obtained at the opening was sixteenpence for hoggets merinos, fifteenpence halfbred hoggets, fifteenpence superfine ewe, and fifteen and threefarthings. Pieces were selling exceptionally well there being good competition for them as usual by Continental buyers; necks from tenpence to twelve and a quarterpence. INCENDIARY CHARGE. PALMERSTON N., Dec. 20. At the Police Court Henry Bell, aged sixty-four, in the occupation of a cook and at present unemployed, was charged with wilfully setting fire to a building in Ruahine Street last evening. He was remanded till this afternoon. A Constable proceeding home noticed the fire and warned the occupants. He arrested accused.