DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1924, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per PretM Association,J

BOOKIE FINED £2OO.

DUNEDIN, April 29, Thos. Potter was fined £2OO at the police court for bookmaking. Four years ago defendant was fned £lOO. The evidence to-day showed that he was in a fairly large way of business.

TAXI-DRIVER’S DEATH. OAMARU, April 28.

A taxi-driver named Frederick Arthur Obbard, who was found dead in bed yesterday, had about £4OO in his clothes, and has considerable other property. His relatives, if any, have not been located. An inquest will be held to-morrow night. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. PAHIATUA, April 28. Alexander White, a single man, and a recent arrival in the Dominion, was admitted to the hospital .suffering from concussion and cuts on the head and hands and leg. He was knocked down by a car driven bj r a boy named McKeown.

A siin of a Ballance settler was caught in the belting of a milking machine, causing injuries to the head and body.

BURNT TO DEATH. NAPIER, April 27.

As a result of a fire in a- works hut, at the Public Works Camp at Kaiwaka, a man named William Murphy, a labourer, was fatally burned. After the flames had been somehat subdued by the workmen, two men entered the hut, and dragged Murphy from his bed. He was frightfully burned, and after first aid had been rendered, an endeavour was made to bring him to Napier, but he expired on the journey. It is surmised that deceased, fell asleep leaving a candle burning, this causing the outbreak of fire. TROTTING CHARGES. DUNEDIN, April 28. In the Police Court to-day, before Mr H. W. Bundle', S.M., another of the trotting .scandals was heard. This was that in which John Richards and Walter Leonard James Cameron were jointly charged that they conspired by fraudulent means to defraud the Gore Racing Club by entering a horse named The Dingo in the Balfour Trot at a meeting held on October 20, 1923, qnder a false name, to wit, Kingsdale. After several witnesses, had been heard for the prosecutioii, accused reserved their defence and were committed for trial, bail as previously being allowed.