GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 215, 1 April 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

i The Otint liiimi'l should not have been « attempted for half a century; nor then, j unless the prospects justified it: having j been commenced, it should ho left uncompleted until there is more money to | spare, and until the crying need of the I Dominion for increased production, ini creased export, increased revenue, is less imperative than it is to-day. One t would really imagine that tlic existence • of Keiv Zealand depended upon the com- | pletion of this wasteful and worthless \ railway.—VVnngamii Herald. Tomatoes were never cheaper in Wel- \ lingfon than they are at the present time. A few months ago there was every leason to believe, owing to'the continued wet weather, that they would j be in short supply, and one Auckland I business man entered into a contract I to take twenty tons from the Hutt at j l'/ 3 d per lb. Hot weather set in soon > afterwards, and the Wellington market for the past three weeks has been almost glutted with tomatoes,.the lower grade of which are now selling in some shops at less than Id per 11),' while at auction some have been sold at (id per ease. Fach empty case costs the grower fully 2d. First grade tomatoes are realising 2d and 3d per lb retail. As the supply will soon be exhausted prices are beginning to harden, an advance of from 15 to 20 per cent, having taken place last week. A determined suicide by a Maovi girl named Paei'ehurangi Ransfiehl, who was occupied as housekeeper for th;; Rev. > Taimona llapimana. took place at the hitter's residence. It. appears the girl' was keeping company with a young Maori man, to whom llapimana objected. She had been out on the previous night with the young man, and in the morning was scolded by llapimana. Tne latter left the house to go to Opotiki. During I his absence the Maori girl when into a | back bedroom, took a double-barrelled " shot-gun, and loaded it with one shot cartridge, which she obtained from a j drawer in the bedroom. She apparj eutly s.'.t on the bed and pulled the trigj ger with her foot, shooting herself in the breast, On his return from Opotiki, llapimana discovered the body leaning on the bed. and lie at onee communicated with the police. An inquest was held the same day, when a verdict was brought in "That deceased met her death by a gunsot wound, self-inflicted, while of unsound mind." || | ,!■ I ■ Mil mi»U——»W»