LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The first election of members of the Whanganiomona County Council takes place to-day.
Close on three lhou>a!id persons liavi \i>itcil D;n\souV Fall .Mounfaiit ilousi this M-ason.
News was received in FJlham yes tor- ] day that Mr. il. K. l-islu-r's store and < residence iit Mangamingi \va-» entirely destroyed l>y lire curly yesterday morning. The lire was caused by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp . The Under-Seeretary for Crown Lands has ad\ised the Land Board that there is no power to give t .ll'ecfc to the Board's deci-ion to vest Section 1> Block XI., ;»Minj]ia, in the Eltluun County Council a-, a resting-place for travelling stock. i-..vept by special legislation. A painful accident happened to a sun oi Mr. A. .Needlnuu. of Douglas, uii Monday (>a,v«. the Post). The lad was playing with a younger brother (woo had a .-hovel in his hand), when the laii' ,r struck the former on the hand with the instrument, almost severing the lingers* of the lelt hand. Tlie injured boy was brought into Stratford, where lie was attended to hy Dr. Paget. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Walter James Koss was charged with stealing, at Napier oil th«j 1 Hh instant, a horse, saddle, bridle, and 1 pair of spurs, valued at ;CIU 17s lid, ' the property ol William Wc-don, of Eskdale. Aecused had been arrested on Monday by Constable Melvor. lie was reinauded to Napier, to appear oil Tuesday next. Bail was allowed oil his own I bond for XSO aim oue surely of .Cut) II or two of £2O oaeli.
Constable Ryan of Stratford, received j word yesterday morning from Strathi more that a young man named David
Moore had been found dead then' Moore, who was a laborer in the em ploy of the County Council, was lasi seen alive bv a man named Clark, win
on returning home from a dance .* about 2 a.m. saw Moore in his bed an apparently sleeping peacefully. At a.m. Moore was discovered dead in a outhouse. Deceased was about tliirt years of age and supposed to be single
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 103, 22 April 1908, Page 2
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347LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 103, 22 April 1908, Page 2
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