DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 278, 21 November 1914, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

[Per Press Association.] Dannevirke, November 21. John Watson, a station cook, who came to town on Thursday, dropped dead in High Street this morning while talking to a friend. An inquest is being held. Wellington, November 20. At thq Supreme Court, Laurence ,Gerald Healy, lately a member of the expeditionary force, ' was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for forging and uttering orders for goods. Robert Henry Yibson was sentenced to five months for fortune telling. He had already been two months in prison. Sutherland Murray Donald Grant, for robbery from the person, was sentenced to nine mouths’ imprisonment. Louis James Hosking, 26 years of age, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on three charges of carnal knowledge of a little gTrl eight years old in the boardinghouse where he stayed, Mr Justice Hosking stigmatising the crime as the worst of the kind, and punishable with three floggings. The two-year-old child of G. H. Hollis, of Luxford street, died this morning under tragic circumstances. Last evening she was found lying uiir conscious on the floor at home, with a tin containing a patent fly-killer beside her. It, is presumed she ate some of the contents. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 18th inst.:—“Tallow advanced 9d.” .vf-i'i».*- faKUm L