DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 January 1925, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) ■ TRUCKER KILLED. ) DUNEDlN,'January 15. James William ’ "Cleaver, aged 22, died at the hospital "this' morning as the left femur, while employed as a the left pemur, while employed as a trucker at Shag Point mine.

FIRE AT FOXTON? ' ' FOXTON, January 15. Fire at Rough and Company’s gutted the flax-teasing plant yesterday. The flames quickly spread and destroyed the building and plant of Brewers’’ rope (works adjoining. The loss will be greatly in excess of the insurances. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

BLENHEIM, January 15. David Maine, 54, rabbiter, was found in the yard of the pomrii’ercial Hotel with his throat gashed with a pocket-knife. The indicatiohs’ poiiit to attempted suicide. He was taken to the hospital, and his condition is serious.

SUICIDE BY DROWNING. AUCKLAND, January 1.4.

Cyril Kightly, aged £9, was seen to jump from the Arkles Bay wharf todhy. An effort was made to save him by a young man named .Tulley, but he was unsuccessful. The body was recovered later.

At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict of suicide by drowning,

SOLICITOR ARRESTED

TIMARU, January 14.

Martin Joseph O’Brien,, solicitor, of Timaru, who was arrested here today on a charge of - alleged forgery in respect of- a cheque for £32 8s 9d., was brought before the Magistrate and remanded till January 21, bail being allowed, self in £2OO and one surety of £2OO.

MANSLAUGHTER ‘CHARGE-. AUCKLAND, January 15. Wilfred James Wheeler, motor ’bus driver, ‘was charged? at the Police Court with manslaughter, -arising- out of the death of Richard Rhodes Hartwell. 69, Parnell Rise, on November 1.7. Wheeler was committed for trial, on bail of £lOO. A ALUELESS CHEQUES. PALMERSTON NORTH, Jah. 15, Samuel Knight pleaded guilty to a charge of false pretence by means of a valueless cheque, with intent to defraud. He obtained £6 from an hotel licensee. He was committed for sentence. On further similar charge, the offence for which is alleged to have taken place at Feilding, accused was remanded to appear there. x FIRE AT MARTON MARTON, January 13. Fire at two o’clock this morning gutted the northern portion of a twostorey modern building occupied by Lloyd, Ltd., drapers, Broadway. The flames had a strong hold when the brigade arrived. The Presbyterian and English churches were threatened, but were saved. The damage is estimated at £lB,OOO. The insurance is £lO,OOO on the stock in the Sun Office. AUCKLAND ZOO AUCKLAND, January 13. A shipment of animals for the Auckland Zoo arrived by the Tekoa from London to-day.. One giant anteater and a chimpanzee died during the voyage, while a second ant-eater is in a dangerous condition. A veterinary surgeon was summoned by wireless while the vessel was approaching the coast, and he attended the sick animal while the steamer was anchored in the stream.

AID FOR SETTLERS. WELLINGTON, Jan. 15.

The Minister of Lands is receiving many requests for relief from Crown and soldier settlers, who suffered by floods. From his personal observations, he is able to say that the great bulk of the damage is not of a permanent nature, but the grazing is wholly or practically ruined for this season. The Land Boards have been directed to make enquiries without delay, and if necessary, to recommend a postponemeht of the payment of .rent.

UNFAIR TRADING.'- ' CHRISTCHURCH, January 14.

* -'Fining a man £5 with costs for selling cigarettes during ~the hours in which tobacconists’ shops are required to be closed-,- Mr Wyverfi Wilson, S.M., said that the practice of shopkeepers in selling cigarettes after hours to the detriment or legitimate tobacconists must be checked, If the hours during which tobacconists’ shops were permitted to be open' did not suit the public, then such hours should .be changed. While those hours were' in operation, however, tobacconists had to be protected. ‘

ESCAPE FROM DROWNING

WELLINGTON, January 13;

Last week-end at Castlecliff, Wanganui, Dr. Alexander Wilson, Mrs. Wilson (daughter of Mr. W. A. Kennedy, of Wellington), and their little son narrowly escaped death by drowning. The family were bathing near the Kiosk. None' could swim. Suddenly the littlb boy was swept off his feet by the'current. 1 Mi’s. Wilson rushed to his assistance, and" she also was swept away. Dr. Wilson, suddenly noticing what had happened, and seeing his wife being carried away, dashed into the water in the hope of being able to' gave her, 1 but he, too, was swept away. All three were now struggling in the’ water, and their cries for hell) brought people’ froin farther along the beach to the rescue. Members of the Surf Club were not on duty, but two of those on the beach, Messrs Smith and Bullock, managed to get Dr. and Mrs. Wilson out of the 1 water just in time. In the meantime the little boy had been carried by the current into shallow water, ’and was brought safely ashore. He t soon recovered; but Dr. and Mrs. Wilson' were unconscious. Two doc- 1 tors, who had been telephoned for, arrived, and after some time. Mrs. Wilson revived after It was, however, only with considerable difficulty that Dry Wilson’s life was saved."-