DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1916, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

tpestport appoixtmfxts. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Yi'estport, October 10, Out of eiglit applicants, Mr. W. A. Tulloeh, assistant harbormaster, v/as thh evening appointed harbormaster at Wcstport, and out of nine applicants, Mr. A. Tointon, also an assistant harbormaster, was appointed cl"puty. These appointments were made under a reorganisation scheme by which there are a harbormaster and a deputy in place of a harbormaster and two assistant's. 'PRICE OF BUTTER LGWEREP ■Wellington, October Ifi. 'llie local wholesale houses have reduced the [.rice of butter to Is r >d per pound, so ns to enable tho retailers to sell it at Is id. fcKELETOX UXEARTHED Palmrrston X., October M. While engaged levelling a sf.;:npod paddodc at Jaekeytown, Thoh:as Korean, an employe.-' of A. J Oallich.ui. u.v earthed a human skeleton, along with i.ii old revolver. The only means of identification is a sihvr card-ease bei'.riug tha inscription, "John Cole, Pa!>.".=;'ston >!., N.Z." The caw U in good e.i.idition, Accoril'rg tj the Policj Gazette of 1533, a n-.a:i ii;vr.ij-J Jo'm Cole, i; (leiitist of PalniL'r.'.ton Xorth. wa* ropovl.'d missing. Tiie remains are believed to be- tlio.= e of the missing ma::. Cole i;as a native of England. The Gazette states that Colo was reported to 1 ave pi'.reliascil a revolver. The only ejue was the subsequent finding of his clothes on the bank of the Mana.VAV.i river, ;;ear .lael;eylo" The nolice are making inquiries