WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 224, 28 September 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wei lington, last night. Kenneth Frank Christian, aged 14 months, was killed by the lid of a box falling on his neck at his parents’ residence in Arney street. Argument has been heard in the Supreme Court in the case of Moore and others v. Public Trustee, claim for pensions on the fund raised after tho Brunner disaster, which had been stopped on plaintiffs’ re-marrying. Mr Guinness, for plaintiffs, claimed that the provisions of the deed under which the Trustee acted had not been compiled with, as tho Board had not been consulted. Judgment was deferred. Thomas Bould was fined £2O at the Magistrate's Court on two charges of sly-grog selling at Johnsonville. DEATH OF MR HOLMES. The Hon. Matthew Holmes, who died this morning, had been more or less an invalid for some time, and his death though comparatively sudden was not, therefore, unexpected. lie arrived in the colony in the early Sixties, and immediately entered into busidess as a pastoralist. gaining a wide reputation as a breeder of pedigree stock. lie was appointed to the Legislative Cauneii in 1866. Deceased lcgvea three sons and three daughters, one of the latter being the wife of the Hon. G. McLean,