IN THE DOMINION.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 289, 30 July 1908, Page 5

IN THE DOMINION.

0 A settler named William Buckthorp, aged 50, hanged himself at Henderson from a beam in an outhouse. His wife is visiting friends in Taranaki.

Three horses harnessed to a van bolted in Hobson street, Auckland, and careered to the sidewalk, where the driver, to escape decapitation by the verandahs, jumped off. For thirty yards the animals brought down all the shop verandahs, and for a similar distance all the poles were smashed.

John Chalmers, a single man, fifty years of age, and a wellknown resident of Lawrence, committed' suicide by hanging. The man suffered from an internal complaint, but had shown no signs of mental depression.

At the inquest at Dunedin on the body of Mary Ann Hollis, aged 73 years, who was found dead in her house-on Saturday, the medical evidence was to the effect, that death was due to cold and starvation, and a. verdict was returned accordingly. One witness staed that the deceased had been ailing but refused to see the doctor.

A collision occurred between a motor-car and a trap on Monday night at Napier, and Mr Norman Mair, one of the occupants of the car, was thrown out heavily, suffering concussion of the brain. Mr Mair, who is a son of Major Mair, is making good progress towards recovery.

'At the Rangiora • Magistrate’s

Court, a man named William Bell pleaded guilty to breaking, entering and theft at West Eyreton and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On a charge of stealing a horse at Oxford, he was committed for trial.

Owing to the failure of the Green Island mineowners and miners to effect a settlement of their dispute, the Arbitration Court has decided to hear the case’on Wednesday next. Other conferences are to be held, but, in the event of there being no settlement, the court will also hear the remaining cases.