DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 September 1924, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)

DEATH IN CELL.

AUCKLAND, September 15. While . confined in a cell at the police station this morning, on a charge of vagrancy, Daniel Minogue, 57, died in his sleep from heart failure. He was arrested op Saturday.

AUCKLAND BURGLARIES. AUCKLAND, September 14. Burglars are still active -here, Clarkson’s store at Northcote being entered during Friday night ’ and tobacco worth ten pounds stolen. An unsuccessful attempt was made to force a bootmaker’s shop adjoining the other.

BLOWN TO PIECES. DUNEDIN, September 15. The police were advised yesterday afternoon from Ranfurly that a shocking fatality had occurred at Hamilton’s mining works, Otago Central. A single man, Thomas Mann, 45, was found in the. morning ■ literally blown to pieces, apparently by gelignite.

POST OFFICE ROBBERIES. GISBORNE, September 15. The Post Office at Manutuke was broken into on Saturday. Two parcels, stamps, and 35/- in money were taken. The police arrested a young native Hore Akuira who was to-day remanded, for a week on a charge of burglary.

EMPLOYERS ROBBED. ALCKLAND, September 15. Eric Thompson, 21, charged at the Police Court with the theft of £412 7s 6d, the property of W; and R. Fletcher, Ltd., pleaded guilty. Tn a statement to the police, he said that he had taken the money at various times, hoping to repay it. He had spent the money on pleasure. He was committed for sentence MOTOR CARS COLLIDE. BLENHEIM, September 13. The danger of the practice of several motor cars driving closely one behind the other was illustrated when a string of cars in which the Marlborough Rugby team was being conveyed to Kaikoura, struck trouble before reaching Seddon, and, as a result of the accident, one car had- to be left at Seddon in a disabled condition. Three cars containing footballers travelled down an incline on to the Awatere Bridge, and just as they turned on to the bridge they suddenly were confronted with a motor lorry loaded with timber. The lorry was proceeding towards Seddon, but the driver had stopped in order to adjust the load. It was impossible to pull up at short notice, and the first car crashed into the rear of the timber carrier. The cars behind .bumped each other as they came on to the bridge, .all three being involved in the collision. Nobody was seriously hurt. The damage to the first car is extensive.

POLICEMAN ASSAULTED. AUCKLAND, September 12.

At the Magistrate’s Court a married woman was fined £3 for assaulting a police sergeant. The officer said that accused and another woman rode their horses under a verandah in Karangahape road to shelter from the rain. He told defendant she would have to move her mount into the roadwayi, but she regarded him disdainfully and replied: “When I am ready.” On witness replying that she was breaking the bylaw and he would have to take her name unless she moved off, defendant became heated and said, “You dare to speak to me, you cad.” She reiterated her refusal to move or give her name. Witness then reached for the horse’s bridle, intending to lead it into the road, when defendant dealt him a vicious blow with her riding crop, saying, “How dare you touch a lady’s horse.” She then cantered off to regain her companion, who had discreetly withdrawn during the argument.

Defendant was also fined £1 for a breach of the by-law.