DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2655, 10 November 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

ATTEMPTED suicide. [Per Press Association, j CHRISTCHURCH, Nov, 9. Henry John Morgan, a middle-aged married man, attempted to commit suicide by taking poison to-day. He has been admitted, to the hospital in a precarious condition. PROPOSED BAND CONTEST. DUNEDIN, Nov. 8. At a meeting of representatives of the Kaikorai citizens, Mornington, Caversliam, Lyttelton Marine Bands held to-night it was resolved to hold a monster band contest in Dunedin about the latter end of next year. JOURNALISTIC. DUNEDIN, Nov. 9. Mr. Geo. Fenwick has resigned the He is to be succeeded by Mr. Hutchison. [Mr. George Fenwick has had a lengthy journalistic career. He entered the “Otago Witness” office as an apprentice in 1859, paid a visit to Australia in 1866, andAvas appointed manager of the now defunct “Otago Guardian” in 1875. Two years later, with his partner (Mr. Reed) he purchased the ‘’‘Otago Daily Times” and “Otago Witness," and in 1878 lie floated the business into a public company, and became managing director. He became editor in 1891. He was a delegate at tbe recent Imperial Press Conference.] DEATH FROM SCALDING. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 9. Mrs. Jas. Smith, a resident of Woodlands, died at the. hospital this morning from scalds sustained last week. While working at a range she slipped and capsized a kettle of boiling water over her bodv.