STOP PRESS ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 19855, 2 May 1928, Page 10

STOP PRESS ITEMS

CONDEMNED MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. LONDON, May I.—Browne attempted to commit suicide in Pontonville Prism (says the ‘ Daily Express ’). He tried to cut his tlivoat with a piece of steel while in heel, inflicting severe wounds one heiti" half an inch deep. A warder on entering the condemned cell notced blood stains on the bedding and .summoned the governor and a doctor. Browne’s- wounds were dressed, and lie was earned in a weak condition to the prison hospital.—Australian Press Association. ' WEST COAST MINES IDLE. AH the West Coast mines were idle to-day as a “ protest ” against the prosecution of the Mlllerton miners for an alleged breach of their award. The ' mines ■ were also idle yesterday for the celebration ol May Day.—Grej month Press Association telegram. FOUND SHOT. Alfred Conway Gray, aged twenty-seven single, a son of William Gray, of Marlinborough, and employed on a (arm at Papaknra, \\as found shot in a hut early tins morning with an old muzzle-loading ride alongside the body.—Auckland Press Association telegram. AN ILLEGAL STRIKE—MINERS FINED. J n the Westport- Magistrate's Court this morning 338 miners were proceeded against by the Inspector of Awards ior a breach of the Labour Disputes Investigation Act (an illegal strike), < and were fined sums aggregating £ LAO 10s and costs. —Press Association telegram. THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon,—Westport Coal, £1 10s 3d; Bank of New Zealand, £3.