DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1925, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

.. . (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON "FIRE. ' ?■.- ••■•■ WELLINGTON, May. 9, It is understood that incendiarism t is Suspected In connection with the fire at Knight’s timber yard,, bn , Thursday night. ; ’ : ■:'■•. I ?' JURY DISAGREES. - I WELLINGTON, May 'B. In the Eastbourne Ferry c-aso, at • the trial ,of Gebrgb Slidi'e. ••changed . with theft and conspiring to' defraud, the jury was. absent for fiveMiours. Then it Returned, and intimated 'that 'it had 'failed to agixe. -t’A new trial was ordered. ■ '?v- f , ROTOM Y TRAGEDY. ' 1 f - ROTORUA, May’B. , Owing io sensational undbnfir’med reports iii various journals, the poroner, jury and' police, visited- tfie scene of the Rotoma tragedy, and reconstructed the events with the aid l of witnesses on- thb spot- The inquest date is unfixed. \ CONSTABLE INJURED .v CHRISTCHURCH, Maya-9.' ’Colliding with a’ motor 'Chr, while chasing a boy, cyclist, who h’ad - failed to stop when asked for ah explanation, Constable Jahnet received . injuries ‘ which nee'essitated his 'fremoval to the Christchurch Hospital, on Thursday evening. TOWN HALL ON FIRE. ' rk.GORE, May 9. . Balfour’s Hall.was by fire this morning. A....dai'ice),.wAs. held last evening v;he.ii everything" appeared safe., > Apparently illy blaze rtartbd at the boiler in the a’ite-rcom. The hall was insured for, £5OO. The ’building was owned by a -'company. , MOTORIST WffiiED. '' ” WAIPAwY, May: 9/ '. WhPe ri't'irniiiq home from the races llast evening, a ;-c<ir'"containing 'Patrick McCartqn; :(TMhape). ' , “Johh • McCartcn, and’ T.hvdkay, ,yn ’ info a batik neri’ Piikekohe, " and’ ri'ze'd. ?■' - Rati'ick McCarteh; Was 'dead ' ,' when : extricated From 'th? wreckage. Miss Lindsay suffered' a (broken log.' i '""■■ SAILOR’S . WAY' OUT. f. ■■■ -y ■ AUCKLAND, ( May . An inquest was held on Ernest ■Marshall Smith: a sailor?'who had been discharged "from thev'Navv diiiv. . ing the past twelve months. He'-had' been found dead in' a bedroom at ‘a Sbardinglybuse. ’The Cororier found that: Smith committed -suicide -by - taking. poison*. Tie had’ bben' short of money, anil was worried because he could not pay his Board. •/’“