DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1924, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

[Per Press Association.]

A SUMNER TRAGEDY.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 11.

The name of a woman whose dead body was found at Sumner to-day was Emily Wilson. At 10 a.m. she left the house of/some friends in Papanui Road, for her home in Rugby Street. Last August she was discharged from the mental hospital.

NAPIER IMPROVEMENTS NAPIER, September 10.

Loan proposals for amounts aggregating nearly £150,000 for permanent street works, electricity 1 improvements, mothers’ rest, and parks and baths improvements, were approved by the ratepayers of Napier to-day by a substantial majority.

WATERSIDER CRUSHED. AUCKLAND, September 12. John Kelly, waterside worker, aged 60, was crushed between two wagons at the wharf. He died at the hospital. He was walking between a stationary motor lorry and a horsewagon, while the latter was being backed against the former for unloading purposes.

CASHIER ACCUSED.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 12. ,

Eric Henry Thompson, a young man employed as ■ cashier by W. and R. Fletcher (N.Z.) Limited, was arrested on a charge of theft of £412/7/6, the property of the firm. He appeared at the Police Court and was remanded till September 15.

ALLEGED THEFT.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 11.

Robert Snowdon Bush, aged 22, appeared at the Magistrate’s Court, today, charged with converting to his own use, the sum of £6 12s 6d received on terms requiring the money to be paid into the account of the Native Trust Department, where he formerly was employed. The chief detective said that the defalcations totalled about £l5O. Bush was remanded till September 17. MAORI GIRL SHOT. NEW PLYMOUTH, September 12. The police have received advice from the constable at Mokau of a shooting fatality at Mohoenui on Thursday. • A party of Maoris, including chilren, were on a pig hunting expedition, and while the party were resting, a little boy picked up a gun and accidentally discharged it, killing a little girl named Kohi Parama, aged about six. An inquest has been ordered. MOTORISTS’ ESCAPE. DARGAVILLE, September 12. Three men, Jack Vodanovich, Viscoe, and A. Jolly had a natrow escape from a serious accident when returning from Babylon to Dargaville in the,, farmers’ motor car. They were going through a 'cutting when the engine back-fired, and before the driver could do anything, the car backed over a bank fifty feet high, with the engine blazing. The occupants immediately jumped out, the owner receiving an injury to liis hand. When about 20ft. down the bank, the car got stuck on a post. The machine was totally destroyed by fire.

MOTORIST FINED.

WELLINGTON, September 12.

A sequel to the recent fatalitv on the Hutt Road, when Henry Gerard received injuries from which he died, as a result of being knocked down by a motor car, was heard at the Police Court to-day, when Walter Frederick Mams, driver of the car, pleaded guilty to failing to stop after the .accident, and to exceeding the regulation speed.

The Chief Detective described it as a callous- action for the accused to drive away when lie knew that serious harm must have been done.

For failing to stop, Marris was fined £lO and for exceeding the speed -limit £5.

AGRICULTURE SCHOLARSHIP WELLINGTON, September 10.

To help Victoria College to obtain agricultural students, Sir James Wilson has sent £1056 for the purpose Of establishing an annual scholarship. This, Sir James explained in h letter to the Council, consisted of a sum which had been placed in his hands for the furtherance of education. It would not be proper to name the scholarship as coming from himself. It might bo named the Farmers’ Union scholarship. Power of administering the fund was left in the hands of the Council.

Sir Janies said he had received a letter from Mr. Massey stating that the Government would supplement the amount of £lOOO. MISSED THE BOAT AUCKLAND, September 10. Misfortune befel a former Gisborne resident who had arranged to sail for England by the Ruahine to-day with his wife and baby. To-night he is disconsolate in Auckland, while his family are on the high seas. The vessel was scheduled by the board at the gangway to sail at noon, and passengers were all aboard when the passenger in question enquired of a steward when the boat would sail. He was informed that it would not be before five, so he went ashore to obtain medicine for the baby and transact other business.

Just after 1 o’clock he learned casually in a business establishment that the boat had sailed. He hurried to the wharf only to find that the vessel had sailed an hour previously.