DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 67, 14 March 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Hastings, March 13. Very little interest was taken in the election of the Hawks’s Bay Licensing Committee, cun lwo small returns to come, Messrs, a. _c. MccoriinOiv, u. i. ai-uaen, A. L. D. I nisei, C. o. Mackertey, J. Donovan, and W . mane are leaning, out me figures to cniis may reverse tne pos.cions oi the two last-named. lucre are over 6000 names on tne roll, but tlie_ highest polled b.\ one candidate was 524. Eketamma, March id. At the inquest this atieriioon on tlie bony of it. d. di.eL.ean, tne county cieiit, round in tne river this morning, evidence went to snow that deceased had been suffering from bad health, and (lining the last few days did not seem to know wnac nc was uomg. Let- ’ tcTs written by mm were partly incoherent. A vernict was returned tiiat deceased committed su.cide while temperaiaiy misa-iie. IV ellington, _ March 13. Tenders are to be caned for building a laundry, master's house, and niiukigei '.'s -house, at (stoke Orpaanage, Nelson. Cabinet also decided to-ua) to autaonso cue purchase of £IO,UUu worth of rails and sleepers for tlie new Or.uicJi line from OnaKuae to Raetmi. About £II,OOO has been voted tor purchasing rails intended for Kapier-uis-oorne ra lway at ttio .Napier end. t Extensive additions are to he made to tne school for deaf mutes at Sumner. To that end Cabinet decided to-day to accept tenders for about £3OOO worth of buildings, comprising a new wing ana containing much needed class room accommodation and hospital. A tender was accepted to-day lor tne erection of a post office at (Bane, Hawke’s Bay. '

ino new hospital for children, built at a cost -of I about £.16,000, as the result of an effort initiated by the Mayoress .eighteen months ago, was formally opened this afternoon by His Excellency the Governor, who made a special journey from Auckland to Wellington to perform tlie ceremony. There was a large, attendance.. Addresses were delivered by His Excellency, Rev. W. A. Evans (chairman of the Hospital Board), Mr./R. C. Kirk (chairman of ttie hospital committee), and Mr. G. T. London (treasurer). The new hospital almost adjoins the general hospital. Tiie body of an elderly man named Henry Wilkinson, a coal hulk employee, was discovered in the harbour near the King’s Wharf early this afternoon. He had boarded at a house in Tinakori Road, but the place was full last night when he wanted a bed, and the landlady gave him Is 6d to get one elsewhere. This was the last she saw of him. It is not known how he got in the .water. Dunedin, March 13.

The twenty-seventh annual convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was inaugurated today,'when tiie delegates were officially welcomed by Mr. Burnett (Mayor) and extended a civic welcome . Speeches were also delivered by - Mr. G. M. Thomson, M.P., Rev. R. E. Davies (president cf the Council' of Churches)) Messrs. G. Watson, W. J. Moore, ,1). .Gain, and Mrs. Don. The speeches were acknowledged by Mrs. Cole. A thanksgiving service was held in the e veiling. . Westport;, March 14. John , Granville,ip),seam,an, on tin? steamer, Petone, bh'eh I ' missing since Monday night. It is feitfed that 1 ((Phils' been drowned in the Bullor River. Dunedin, March 14. In the course of her presidential address at the W.C.T.U. Convention, MT«; Colo'attacked the Sports Protection League, which, she alleged, existed almost solely for the purpose of protecting the totalisator.