NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3568, 2 September 1920, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

DROWNED IN A DAM HAWERA. Sept. 1. A boy 13J years of age named Stanley Wilfred Murphy was drowned in a clam near Mokoia on Monday. The boy had always been delicate and subject to fits. His mother missed him during the day, and search was instituted. The ddm, which is about two chains from the Bouse, was run and the body was discovered it) about 3ft of water. An inquest was held, and a verdict of “accidentally drowned? was returned. A BOY DROWNED. BLENHEIM, Sept. 1. The police received news this morning from Wairau Bay that a Boy, aged 13, named Victor Homes was drowned J from a dinghy. The body has not been recovered. FOUND DEAD. ■ j , AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. A man named Thomas Massey, about seventy-five years of age, was found dead in bed about ten o’clock this morning. Two ladies called at the house of deceased at tie corner of Trafalgar Street and Auckland Road, Onehunga, wßere he lived along, and meeting with no response to their knocking w r ent across the road to a neighbour who made an entrance into the house. It was known that Mr Massey had been suffering from a severe cold during the past few days. THE PUKEKAWA MURDER. AUCKLAND, Sept. 1 , The Pukekawa murder mystery continues to exert the Best efforts of the police search party investigating the crime j but so far no arrest has been made. Yesterday they were many miles. from the scene of the murder prosecuting inquiries. The adjourned inquest into the circumstances of the murder of the victim, Sydney S. Eyre, was to have been at the Pukekohe Police Court to-morrow, hut the police intend to make application for a further adjournment sine die. This it is understood will he granted. At the Pukekawa-proceedings evidence of identification was given by the widow of the deceased. The proceedings were short, the Coroner, Mr R. F_ Webster, granting the police an adjournment to Pukekohe. THE LATE LIBERAL LEADER. j WELLINGTON. This .day. The remains of' the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald were placed on the Napier express this morning. All Cabinet Ministers, members of both Houses, Sir Robert the Acting Gover-nor-General, tHe Mayor and City Councillors, departmental heads, and many prominent citizens followed the hearse to the train. Mrs and Miss 1 MacDonald left in a special carriage. The pall-bearers were . Members o,f Parliament The Liberal party will I be represented at the funeral at Gisborne by Messrs G. W. Forbes, Hon. A. T. Ngata, and T. E. Y. Seddon, and the Government, by the Hon. W. Nosworthy, and Mr F. F. Hockley, M.P’s.