DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1913, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

THE COD INDUSTRY. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, February 18. Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P., has sent the following message to the Hon. Mr Fisher, Minister of Marine:—“The blue cod season is just starting and the fishermen working under the old harrassing regulations suggest that the alterations of the size limit, recommended in the report of the commission, be gazetted.” The Minister has replied that in a Gazette notice, in accordance with the report of the Commission, now in the course of preparation, the weight limit will he revoked and the size limit fixed at 10£ inches in length in natural state or 9 inches when headed. This regulation will be Gazetted on the 26th inst. PECULIAR COMPENSATION CASE. Timaru, February 18. Some months ago a stable hoy, sleeping in a loft in a town livery stable, got up in the night, as he says, because ho heard a horse making a noise. He fell over the rail round the landing on the top of the stairs. In consequence, he said he was crippled for life. Mr Justice Sims to-day heard a suit for compensation against the boy’s employers, and reserved hie decision. The defence urged that the accident did not arise in the course of employment, and suggested that the SEPTIC POISONING. Dunedin, February 18. An inquest on the body of John McLennan, aged 28, who died yesterday as the result of injuries sustained at Patearoa on February 1, was held today' Medical evidence showed that when che deceased was admitted to the hospital on the 6th inst., he was suffering from a double fracture of the lower jaw, which was in a septic state. There was also a large inflammatory mass on the right side of the neck, and bruises about the upper parts of the chest. He was placed under the charge of Dr Pickerel!, and an operation performed. The condition of the parts affected was extremely septic and, from the continual absorption of poisonous matter, he gradually became worse and died as the result ol septic poisoning. The deceased was unable to speak distinctly and nothing could be learn td from him as to how he received the injuries. The cavity of the mouth was in a continually septic state, and owing to the nature of the location of tdie wounds, it would have been ven difficult, to keep them in an anti-septi( condition. The coroner said that it was unfortunate that no one had seen the accident, but there was no doubt it was pure accident, and no blame was attached to anyone. He would find a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. END OF MASQUERADE, Auckland, February 19. '('be girl, Florence Arks, who called at the Salvation Army Home on February -4th in male attire and became ill, as the result of taking what was believed to bo perchlorido of mercury, died in the hospital last night.