DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1923, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) TAILOR ROBBED. AUCKLAND, November 7. Thieves entered the tftilor’s shop of J. Moyes in Victoria street, and stole cloth and finished suits to the value of £lOO. They used a motor-car to remove the booty. WINDOW CLEANER KILLED AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. Ernest Horace Powell, aged 33, of Mt. Eden, a window cleaner by occupation, died in the Hospital. He fell from a two-storey building on Tuesday afternoon, fracturing Iris skull. BURGLAR CAUGHT. GISBORNE, November 7. Francis Raymond Hyde was arrested last night with a crowbar in his possession. guilty to breaking and entering the auction mart and railway station and was committed for sentence. DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. DUNEDIN, November S. At an enthusiastic meeting of the shareholders of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Co., the recommendations of the directors that the scope of the Exhibition be international and that it be held at Lake Logan were confirmed. NOT GUILTY. DUNEDIN, November 8. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Justice Sim. Samuel James Howe Johns was charged with the ihell, about June 16, at Cardrona. of 195 oz Bdwt.4grs of gold, of a value of £781). property of the Cardrona Dredging Coy. He was found not guilty. ALLEGED HORSE THEFTS. PUKEKOHE, November 9. Clyde Powell Ludwig, Walter Barraclough, and Percy McGilvray pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing fifteen horses from Akaaka, and wore committed for trial. Ludwig was further charged with stealing nine cattle. He pleaded not guilty, and was committed . for trial. Bail was allowed.

WAIKTNO SCHOOL. AUCKLAND, November 7. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day, it was decided that an inspector should visit Waikino to report whether the school should be erected on another site. It was resolved to congratulate the headmaster, Mr Reid, and his assistants, on the way in which they camo through the recent ordeal. FOUND DROWNED. NAPIER, November 8. At’ the inquest on James Trask, whose body was found on the beach at Westshore yesterday, the deceased’s brother said it was deceased’s custom to bathe his feet in salt water at the back of the freezing works after his day’s work. Witness supposed the deceased had slipped on the concrete and fell into the sea. A doctor gave evidence that marks on the face were consistent with a fall. Death was due to drowning. The Verdict was “found drowned.” OTIC 11. A AND P. SHOW. CHRISTCHURCH,’November 8. Under weather conditions in every way ideal, the Diamond. Jubilee Show of the Canterbury A. and P. Association was opened at Addington to-day. Appropriately enough, the show, Which marks the commencement of a new epoch in the history of the Association marks the inauguration of a new system of lay-out so far as grounds are concerned, and the institution of great improvements in all facilities and arrangements. On the whole,, this year’s show is bigger and better than its predecessors. SOCCER TOUR. WELLINGTON, November 9. The Football Association (Soccer) has received a letter from Mr A. Gibbs, its representative in England, stating that the question of an Australian tour was considered by the International Selection Committee of the Football Association, at Sheffield on October 1. A sub-committec was appointed consisting of Messrs Clegg, McKinna, Lewis and Kingscott, to consider and report. This is considered distinct evidence of a keen desire on the part of the Football Association. io send a team on lour, as the men named are its four most influential members.

CRIMINAL’S RECORD. DUNEDIN, November 9

Joseph Thomas Christie, the notorious criminal and gaol breaker, who was sentenced yesterday to 15 years imprisonment lor theft from the Otago Farmers’ Co-op., was sent north ihis morning, handcuffed to two stalwart plain clothes men, en route for Mount Eden. Many escapes from prison custody and mentiil institutions stand to his credit in Australia and New Zealand. He began his criminal career when aged 15, when he was birched for theft at Masterton. His longest sentence prior to the pi esent was 10 years’ reformative treatment. Amongst his sensational escapes the best remembered is a leap from the Lyttelton-Wellington ferry, when a boat had to be lowered. On another occasion in the Auckland district, he dived from a. moving train into the river.

— WATERSIDE DISPUTE. DUNEDIN, November 9. Trouble has arisen on the Dunedin waterfront in connection with the discharge of an oil cargo from the steamer City of Birmingham, which arrived yesterday. Under the Arbitration award, men working oil ships below hatches receive fourpence an hour extra, but the Court refused to extend this to men ■working on the deck. It is stated that the men appointed as winchmen yesterday failed to put in an appearance, no ■work therefore being done. The employers notified the men that no further labour would be engaged until the steamer was fully manned, and the only ships being worked to-day are the Dorset and Trelyon, where the men are already under contract. When the Corinna arrived this morning, no call for labour was made. The Karamea on entering port this morning was ordered to berth at Port Chalmers, where, if the dispute is unsettled, she will be discharged. Two hundred and fifty union men are unemployed.