DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 58, 14 July 1913, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE

[Per Press Association.] Hamilton, July 14

Robert Paxton, 50, a laborer, left a Hamilton boardingbouse during Saturday night and has'not since been heard of. A coat was found on the bank of the Waikato River yesterday. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. The police dragged the river without result.

STATTOXMASTER MISSING. Westport, .July 14, F. Croft, railway stationm.iyfei;, at Granity, left there without leave on Saturday morning, and left the train at Westport, but has not-since been seen. Inquiries throughout the district fail to locate him. Ho ha-Fueeh 'mentally depressed lately. He ,came from Canterbury a few months ago". "The books and cash are in perfect order.

THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. Wellington, July 14. The Prime Minister, at the opening of the conference of fruit grower* and shipping representatives "to-day, referred to the fact that last season 17,000 cases of apples were exported, whereas for the season, just closed 30,000 cases had been exported to South America alone, and by th< time all the returns were available, it would doubtless be found;that .the exports had more than rioubkd. Fruit growing was bound to ven important industry, and' the Government hoped to bring down,,legislation enabling one of the departments—probably the Public Trust ' "Depart ment—to make advances to the fruit growers' Association for. providing store ge and cannery works and) generally aiding the industry *

■i,-, g AN OPEN VERDICT. A yerdictof "found drawiied'' wus rer turned at the inquest «oh 'the body of the man who was believed to be jilexander Swallow, of Waimate, who was found in the harbour on Saturla>.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION SCHEME

Wellington, July 14. The control of the Catholic 'schools .of. Wellington for the past year has been vested in the Parish Committees and a Central Board, the necessary funds being contributed by Catholics. The result of the first year's working is. that the i ßoard-dms paid all expenses of tuition .from, the funds so derived and has a credit balance oi £3OO. • ' ■■■;' ' "' rt