DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6, 4 May 1912, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, May 3. Jn consequence of a dispute between the aerated water manufacturers and the hotel keepers upon the prices being advanced over 60 per cent, the latter resolved to start a business to known as the Auckland Licensed Victuallers’ Aerated Water Factory, with a capital of £3OOO in pound shares, which was subscribed immediately. It is intended to sell only to hotelkeepers. Wanganui, May 3. The Hou. H. G. Ell amongst other places visited the collegiate school and declared that the buildings were the finest in New Zealand. He said that lie had heard a good deal about them, but that they surpassed his expectations, especially the main school block, which, ho said, contained one of the finest halls in the Dominion, and with regard to the chapel the Minister emphasised the advantages of such institutions in moulding the character of the young men of New Zealand. Hastings, May 3.

His Excellency the Governor was the guest of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club yesterday. He spends, to-day shooting over Taranaki to TJa’s property, to-morrow at the Waiohiki golf links and on Sunday motors to the Ninth (Welington East Coast) Mounted Rifles camp at Tutira. Palmerston, May 3. Superintendent C. 0. Warner, of the Palmerston Fire Brigade, lias been appointed to the position of the Superintendent of the Christchurch Fire Brigade. Last evening a man named Richard Robertson was discovered lying in a helpless condition in Church Street. The police were informed and found the man in a very bad way but able to speak, and he informed a con-. stable that ho came from Makuri and was 70 years' old. A doctor ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died an hour after admission. Apparently deceased had taken a sudden seizure, as lie was apparently in, good health in the morning. An inquest w ill be held. Westport, May 3. Ina Gibson, aged two years and five months, getting out of her cot was impaled on an upright of the cot from which the knob was missing. The baby died from injuries in the groin. David Parry, 29, married, a recent arrival from Wales, was killed at the Stockton colliery by a fall of coal and stone from the roof.