VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1914, Page 2

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS

«T IKX.SGRm.VB— PEE PBKBH AggOCIATIOB'- j A SAD CASr. GISBORNE, This Day.—At the inquest on Edwin Whaite, who was killed on the railway, tho verdict was that deceased was accidentally run over by a train, no blame being attachable to anyone. Much sympathy is manifested for his seven young orphan children. Iver £IOO was subscribed yesterday in the Otoko district for doceased's family. THE OTAGO ENCAMPMENT. TUNEDIN, This Day. The Railway Department has convoyed 167 officers, 4000 men. and 1005 horses to the Matarae camp. General Hamilton re views the troops on Wednesday. UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. NAPIER, This Day.—The corporation steam roller got out of hand last evening whilst descending Shakespeare Road, owing to a pin which holds the gear in the mesh breaking. Tho brake failed to hold and the cumbersome roller gathered up high speed. Nearing the bottom, the roller swerved and crashed into Nurse Jones' cottage, carrying away the whole side of the'house and pulling up in front of a bedroom. The driver had a miraculous escape. A woman patient and infant wore removed, from the room only a er>"ple of hours before the mishap occurred. ADULTERATED MILK. AUCKLAND. Th\ a Day.—At the police court to-day Thomas Blake, a dairy farmer, was fined, £l2O and £3 17s costs for rolling milk containing water, one. sample showing 24 and another 23 pet' cent, of wafer. The .Magistrate ordered that the fnnvietioi'. narnr> and ocmintiiri of tho defendant, his place of business, lAttire of ofle'n-e, and penalty be punJished by the Health Officer in both the Auckland newspapers.