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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 April 1913, Page 6

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FROM LATEST FILES. A verdict of manslaughter was returned against Arthur Mayor,. of Eggington, near Leighton, at the adjourned inquest at Leighton Buzzard on Maud Robinson. It was alleged that she was knocked down by his car, when walking by the :S-ide of her mother-in-law','/ bathchair, and that instead of taking her at once to a doctor Mr Mayor • went back to niea< sure the wheels tracks. Mr Percy Illingworth, MP., Chief Liberal Whip, in a letter to the chairmani of a luncheon at Bradford recently in support of the Baptist Sustentation Fund (for providing reasonable stipends for ministers), said he would give the first donation of £SOO. Mr A. Whitehead, of Bradford, gave £IOOO. ■Mr David Sinclair Williams, a popular local 'preacher of Shipley, Yorks, collapsed while delivering an address at a Wesleyan chapel in Bradford on Sunday and died before a doctor could rench him. Bridgewater (Somerset) Corporation has appointed Mr Arthur King, solicitor, as town clerk, in succession to. the late Mr T. W. Baker. Mr Kingis only 28 years of age. Mr H. G.Ame's band had scarcely played twelve bars of the overture from Auber's "Masaniello" at tin? opening of their first concern of the season on the Palace Pier at Brighton on Wednesday when a cornet player fell dead on the platform and the music ceased. Women, thinking he had merely fainted, offered smelling salts. Presently a doctor came and pronounced the man dead. Hearing the doctor's words another bandsman fainted. The capture of 10,855 rats in the past two years is the achievement of Mr F. Ling, the official rat-catcher to the Colchester Corporation who has resigned because the Corporation desired to substitute payment at the rate of 2d a rat for the salary of 4s a day.