IN THE DOMINION.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 311, 22 September 1908, Page 5

IN THE DOMINION.

0 A woman named Mary Kennedy was found drowned in the Avon river, Christchurch, on Sunday morning. She is supposed to have been sleeping on the bank and rolled in. A verdict of found drowned was returned. Chas. Arthur Burrows, aged ten months, died in the Christchurch hospital on Sunday as the result of burns received through his clothes catching fire. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The annual meeting of • the North Otago Farmers’ Co-oper-ative Association was held at Oamaru on Saturday. The bal-ance-sheet showed £2194 profits available. The report recommended a dividend of 7 per cent, to shareholders. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. John Butler was charged at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court with causing actual bodily harm to Anton Larsen, and was remanded till. Wednesday, The police stated that Butler assaulted Larsen with an axe, and that the wound was of a serious nature.

Mrs David Kinniburgh, said to be the oldest lady resident of Wellington, died on Sunday, aged 92 years. „ She had lived for 67 years in Wellington. She leaves two sons, eight daughters, 29 grandchildren and 38 great-grand-children.

A man named David Reid, aged seventy years, a superannuated railway crossing keeper, was found dead on the Ocean Beach. It is supposed deceased committed suicide by jumping off a cliff at Lawyer’s” Head. Deceased’s wife

died a few months ago, and he had been very despondent ever since.

An old man named William Isles died rather suddenly at Woodville on Saturday afternoon. He had been ill only a few- hours. He was about eighty years of age, and had been twenty-five years in the district, but in the sixties he used to drive a waggon from Dunedin to the goldfields.

At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Farmers” Co-oper-ative Association, held at Timaru on Saturday, the report, which proposed to allocate the net profits (£24,267) in a dividend of 8 per cent., a bonus on purchases of 5 per cent., a rebate on commissions of 20 per cent, and a bonus to the staff of 6 per cent., while £3954 was added to the reserve, making a total of £50,000, the balance being carried forward, was adopted.

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association of Canterbury was held at Christchurch on Saturday. The chairman said the profits for the twelve months amounted to £26,769, which with £5,386 carried over from last year gave a total of £32,145. The earnings for the period, as compared with those of the previous year, showed a diminution consequent upon the collapse of the wool market, the exceedingly dry weather during the greater part of the summer, which naturally affected the auctions and stock commissions, and the monetary stringency, which made its effect felt more or less in every department of the business, The report and balance sheet were adopted.