DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1930, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

1 INQUEST VERDICT. *

By 'telegraph Per Pres*..A^in-isitioua DUNEDIN, September 30.; ■ At an inquest concerning: the death ? of a newly, horn male“child fouiul;.;iii the lavatory of an hotel, tlie mother-, -married, “separated from - her iiushamP gave, evlileiice' that she > was ; employed at ' the 1 hotel ‘and:' went Ho 'bed a t ‘7.46 on September 11. ' ■ Later-she felt some: ailment'in her 1 t’hrolit alul went to ’the ' lavatory where she gave birth to ’the' child, but had not handled it, nor had she heard any sound from it. She had expected the birth about the end ol September. The Coroner found the child was accidentally asphyxiated by the inha atio 1; of blood and water mucus, at or shortly after birth. ' i BAG.SNATpHT^G. ' . SEVERAL ftEpi^'lV '. ' 1 "! / . . ■ f c f iim “ " CHRISTCHURCH,. .Septembei: >29. Several cases of bag-snatching have bcnirr-ed lately, and tlie list was added to on Friday evening, when a woman was knocked icjpwn )|>y [a ihap’. 4.t ! i|i , q^>| 1 mere. Her assailant pulled her coat over Iter head and tried: to make off with Iter bag, but lie had to retire hurriedly when the woman began to hit iiim with a torch which she was carrying- . k TiV'-' ■-!?(, 'Tj ,/ (,* .) *“•. (; l .‘I it : .MISSING MAN’S BODY FOUND. : INVERCARGILL, > :Sep4embei;g?Q,[;/ The body of Tiiomqfi. Adamson y - asingle man,. aged 31 years, who ■ -had been missing/;for over,- a fovtpight,, was discovered this ..morning, washed; up on the bpach of the Estuary; near [Janet SD-eet. ,Tit.e police were cpmi.nuiinicated .with,;and the body was removed to the morgue. An inquest will be held.