THE SEVENTH NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT.
(By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) Beceived March 3, 5.17 p.m.
SYDNEY, March 3. . Owing to certain suspicious circum stances coming to the knowledge of the City Coroner, the body of P. Conway, of Dunedin, the passenger who died on board the Talune on the 19th of Feb ruary, was exhumed from Bockwood Cemetery yesterday. The inquest was opened, and adjourn • ed to Friday. ' It will be remembered that when the remains landed at Sydney the Coroner dispensed with an 'inquest, the cause of death being as a fit, to which the deceased was alleged to be subject. The authorities are very reticent in regard to the matter, the coroner inti mating that it was not in the interests of justice to publish the evidence at present. The police refuse to give any information, but it is supposed 'that the police are acting upon' rumours amongst other passengers that the cir cumstances surrounding Conway's. death were not altogether consistent with -natural causes. Statements are also made that Conway- was supposed to have certain valuables in his posses sion, bnt a search of his lnggage failed to discover any.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.
(Per United Press Association.) CHBISTCHUBCH, March 3. The thirty-four men from-North Can terbury, -with twenty men from South Canterbury, went to Wellington last night to join the Seventh Contingent.
FIRE IN THE AVENUE.
,-. MB E. D. SMITH'S SHOP DESTBOYED.
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
