NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 29 October 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

GLENVILLE BARCLAY'S DEATH

THE CORONER'S COURT FINDING.*

KILLED BY" A M'OWDR-CAR

WHAT EVIDENCE DISCLOSED.

DANNEVIRKE: This Dav.

I At the Coroner's . inquiry "on the jdeath of Glenville Barclay; found dead jon Miller's Road, en Wednesday evening, the jury found a verdict thnt death was due to fracture of the skull, caused'by being struck by a motor car dri-

ven by some person unknown, : w'ailst the deceased' was under tire influence

of liquor.

i The evidence showed that deceased. ion the evening on which he was killed ,;had been found lying' on the 1 read inebriated. He explained tc his discoverer ,t|hat he had been drinking: to drown hfs sorrow. He had sent one son to the Dardanelles, and another into camp with the Maori This wa.s before he was found later €n dead.

WATERED MILK

HEAVY

FIXE* INFLICTED.

CHRISTCHURCH, This-Dav

At. the Magistrate's .Court ro-dfM-Mr Bishop, STM:, in fining-John Sadler £2O and"-costs for selling milk with 32 per cent., of added water: said this was the meanest form of dishonesty he Knew of—to seR to people- milk containing one-tliird water. Th these days of increased cost of living it was simply contemptible.