DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1918, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

(Per Press Association.) KAKANUI MURDER. OAMARU, This Day —The inquest on the body of Onslow Mayhew, the GiniinoU's Crossing murderer, was opened to-day, but adjourned till next week, after evideno eof identiiieaticn had been given. THE WHEAT YIELD. CHRISTCHURCH, July 2 3.—The Wheat Controller advises that up so July 23rd, 5,807,357 bushels of wheat were threshed. The purchases ot good milling wheat totalled 4,535,553 bushels, and seconds 604,127 bushels. r l he amount paid to brokers is £1,304,848 12s 7d. FIRE AT PAHIATUA. PAIITATUA, July 23—A fire gutted a shop occupied by L. A. Burberry, draper, who is a returned soldier. The stock was insured for £l2O. W right and Stephenson’’s office adjoining, suffered slight damage.

RENTAT PATIENTS ESCAPE. AUCKLAND, July 23.—A Raratonfuui, Toeta Kai Nuku, who with Norman Reals, escaped from a mental hospital on Sunday evening, was recaptured near Henderson this evening. Reals refuged in a 40-acre paddock of gorse, which has been surrounded by a party of police. The strength, however, is not sufficient to enter the gorse, and strong reinforcements have heen sent cut. It is expected that a capture will he effected to-night. Air. Muir, 'farm manager at the hospital, saw the two men crossing the road, and, riding up. ho fired two shots into the air, calling on them to surrender. Nuku threw up his hands, but Reals dashed into the gorse. A CCTDE NTALLY S ITOT. CHRISTCHURCH, July 23.—Albert Jenkins, aged 7 years, was accidentally shot dead by his brother, aged 15 yars. at Waikiiku this afternoon. The elder hoy aws standing at the back door of the home with a loaded gun, intending to shoot sparrows. In turning round, the trigger caught a button on his jacket and the gun discharged, the shot striking his brother, who was only five feet away, in the face. Death was instantaneous. ■ REALS RECAPTURED. ATTCRLARD, Tin’s Day.— Reals was found by a search party in a deserted wbare at Henderson wearing l only a waistcoat, shirt, and trousers, and covered with mud. He was evidently feelingthe eold acutely and offered no resistance. He said that he had had enough of it and welcomed recapture-