MURDER OF AN OLD MAN (BY TELEGRAPH.)

Auckland, March 31. The old man, William Veitch, who was enticed out of his house and brutally aa aaultod and robbed ou the night of the 23rd March, at Wairoa South, died this afternoon. On Monday last, as Veitch appeared to be sinking, his depositions wer3 taken before two Justicts of the Peace (Captain Craw ford and Mr James Bell), at his house at Wairoa Souoh, and in the presence of Thomas Fry, alias Floyd, who had been remanded on a charge of assault and rob bery. Veitch then identified Fry as the man who assaulted him. \\ hen his depo sitions were taken \ eitch, who was a feeble old man, was in a sad state, his face and chest having been seveiely bruised, and the flesh over the eyes was swollen and lace rated. A telegram received in towH by Inspector Braham sfcaies that he died afc a quarter past four this afternoon. Fry was well knowVi in Wairoa South district as a laboier by the name of "The Mexican," and worked for Veitch foe some tim«.;|C3G3

A child named M'Kiy, aged 2k years, was yebturd.iy drowned in a tub of water which wis standing in the back yard. The mother and child were on a visit from Dipton, Southland, Frederick Hall, one of the spieling fraternity, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for stealing a totalisator ticket, value L 2 3s (id, from a man at the Riccarton racecourse yesterday.
CHRISTCHURCH. March 31.
