DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2302, 22 September 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] NAPIER, Sept. 21. At the inquest on Alexander. Andrews, aged 68, who was found dead at Pu'kotapu. on Saturday, medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to heart disease, and verdict was returned to that effect. Deceased' was a native of Belfast, and so fas as is known had no relatives in New Zealand. At the. Supreme Court to-day John Brough, alias Ward Robbie, was acquitted on a charge of assault at Moliaka, and was found guilty ol escaping from custody at Frasertown. Sentence was deferred. AVELLINGTON. Sept. 21. Lady Phinket and the Hon. Kathleen Plunket left "Wellington by the Maori to-night for Christchurch. The following is Captain Edwin s weather forecast lo 3 p.m. to-mor-row: Expect stormy and wet weather generally; winds from north in most parts of the North Island' find from the westward principally over the South Island, with >a lulling barometer everywhere. At tho adjourned annual meeting of the New Zealand Journalists’ Institute. officers were appointed, as follows;—President, Air. F. K. Reeves; vice-presidents, Messrs W. S. Douglas (Auckland), C. E. AA’heelcr (AA’ellington), and G. A. Allen (Christchurch). CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 21. At the close of the inquest to-day on the infant whose death had been wrongly registered, the mother, Margaret Gallagher, was 1 charged with making a false declaration, and was remanded. DUNEDIN, Sept. 21. At the inquest on the body of David Reid, whose body was found at on the Ocean Beach yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide while of unsound mind,