THE "CORNER" IN BOTTLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 October 1907, Page 2

THE "CORNER" IN BOTTLES.

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PROBABLE EFFECT ON BOTTLED ALE. Per Press Association. Dunediii, Last Night. ■ Tito "comer" in bottles is causing quite a flutter locally. Up to the present Thomson and Co. have bought about two thousand dozen bottles at ■U Gil per dozen. Jlr. Keast, of Powley and Keast, bottlers, says if the fight continues the price of beer and stout must go up to Is or perhaps Is Od. It is contended that under the agreement of paying Is per dozen for bottles all importing was left to three firms, who were put to an expense of from Is 6d to Is 8d per dozen, while other firms were securing bottles at ,1s per dozen. From all accounts, the consumption of i English ale is not so great as formerly, I this being assigned as one cause of the shortage of b„l'.les. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Timaru, Saturday. On the arrival of the steamer Navua hero this morning the captain reported that a man named David Edwards, who had signed on at Dunediii as a trimmer, was missing. A fireman on tho boat says he saw Edwards on deck when the Navua was at Oamaru. Edwards had been drinking heavily. Auckland, Saturday. At midnight, while the members of the steamer Squall were yarning on the vessel alongside the Railway Wharf, an unknown man, about 35 years of age, suddenly appeared among them, clothed in only the scantiest underwear. He stated that he was in serious trouble, and wished to avoid the police. He expressed his intention of drowning himself at 0 o'clock in the morning. Springing upon the steamer's rail, he dived overboard. Constable Holland, who was on the wharf, joined the Squall's crew. A boat was lowered. The crew rowed after the would-be suicide. He swam under the wharf, and his pursuers were on the point of catching him, when he took a long dive. He was not seen again. His discarded coat, trousers, and shirt were subsequently discovered on the wharf. The body was subsequently recovered and identified as that of William Thompson, a wharf laborer. Whangarei, Saturday Night. News was received from Towai this afternoon that Francis Montague, 54 years of age, a married man with a large family, was drowned on Friday evening when crossing the Maramaku river, which was in flood at the time. The body was found this morning. Deceased was a storekeeper near Towai, and a well-known settler of many years' standing in the district. . Hokitika, Saturday Night.

John Johnston, employed on the Prince of Wales dredge at Ross, was drowned thin morning. Deceased and his mutes, Curvie and Roberts, saved themselves by swimming ashore. They made every effort to save Johnston, but when the body was recovered life was extinct. Deceased leaves a widow and

one child three weeks old. Gore, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of John Gonp, the ex-contingenter who was found dead at Merino Downs, a verdict was returneTl to the effect that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane. The evidence showed that he. was subject, to periodical fits of insobriety, and it is thought that ho was suffering from the effects of a drinking bout when he took his life, though when last seen nlive he appeared to be all right. Coup was a corporal in the fourth contingent, and in his youth was a private in the Scots Greys.