DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1921, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. By Telegraph.—Tress Association. Gisborne, August 15. Norman McFarlane Fulton, a farmer, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter by running into Eugene Doherty with a motor car and causing injuries from which Doherty died. FIRE AT WAIPIRO BAY. Gisborne, August 15. A fire at Waipiro Bay destroyed the premises of Kirk, storekeeper, and Garrenton, baker, the only businesses, except the hotel, billiard room and smithy, which survived the fire on July 29, when damage to the extent of £2900 was caused. Insurances in the present, case amount to £4OOO, and about. £l4OO of Kirk’s stock was salvaged by a bucket brigade. MOTOR MAIL SERVICE. Christchurch, August 15. An offer by the Canterbury Progress League to maintain the daily morning delivery of the rural mails during/ the period of the railway cut has been declined by the Postal Department pending further consideration. The league, which had arranged a complete service of inward and outward mails for all the districts affected, on Saturday was advised that the department was unable to accept the offer. INFLUENZA IN TONGA. Auckland, August 15. When the Tofua left Tonga there had been 100 cases of influenza and two deaths among the natives. The Tofua brought from Samoa six Chinese to undergo imprisonment, four for life, two for seven years, for the attempted murder of a Chinaman.