DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 99, 26 April 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(P«.r Association.) I ' iFeilding, April 26. A six-roomed house at Makino, val- ! nod at £350 and insured in the Phoe- : nix office for £'2oo, was totally destroy;ed by lire this morning, lit was owned by Miss Roe and occupied by Greer ; Bros. The furniture was valued at £2OO but the insurance is not available. No one was in the house at the time. , Dunedin, April 20. Tom Batenman,an aged rabbiter,vvas found dead in a hut at Mount Pisa, probably from heart disease. Napier, April 2G. When the tenders for municipal trams were opened it was found that the prices exceeded the amount available. The Council decided to accept the lowest tenders provisionally on the ratepayers sanctioning a further loan of £IO,OOO. This was given ami the Council to-day accepted tenders as follows: Greenshields and Co., construction of permanent way, road and sewer alterations, overhead work and supply of mains, £30,710 0s 6d; Turnbull and Jones, power station, car shed, repair shop, £13,499 lis 9d; Brush Electrical Co., roiling stock, £lßl6 18s 2d. Auckland, April 26. Mrs Angus Nicholson, aged 60, and Mrs C. Little, aged 60, alter drinking hop beer at Takapuna yesterday were taken suddenly ill. Both became unconscious. In the case of Mrs Nicholson medical aid was of no avail and she died at 3 o'clock this morning. Mrs Little's condition is critical. Two other ladies in the party who had tea instead of hop beer had no ill effects. Hamilton, April 26. J. R. Palmer, contractor, 56, died suddenly at the deviation works on Tuesday night. At the inquest a verdict was returned of death from chronic alcoholic poisoning. Deceased, was a heavy drinker of schnapps. Gisborne, April 26. Mr W. B. Hingston, stock inspector, who was rushed and trampled on by a bfullock at the Matawhero saleyards a few days ago, is in a critical condition and is not expected to live. Wellington, April 26. A statement prepared by Mr A. S. Adams, Dunedin, shows that the New Zealand drink bill for 1911, based on Customs returns, was:—Spirits £l,585,580, wines £286,304, imported beer £82,095, New Zealand beer £1,905,392, total £3,859,371; cost per head of population, £3 12s 6}d; decrease, 6fd. ~ .... .., ~-,...