DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1925, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Pet Preap, Association..)

STATION HAND.’S, SUICIDE. CHRISI'CHURGit, -November 30. On Saturday, tlie. body of.,a youfig man, Joseph' Gillespie, 'employed on Cheviot Hills Station, was. found hanging to a tree. At the inquesj/, a verdict of suicide while in a depressed state of mind was returned...,.

DEATH ON. SHIP. AUCKLAND, December 1. Harry Howard, about- 51, a seconiclass passenger on the Remuera, booked through to Australia, was found dead in liis bunk the day. before the ship reached Pitcairn Island. CHEAPER BUTTER ' AUCKLAND, December 1. The butter factories’ local marketing Association resolved, to. reduce the. price of butter to superfine, wholesale 1/BJ, retail 1/10; first grade 1/71 and 1/9; second grade l/6£ and 1/8. DUNEDIN, Dec. 1. • Butter will be reduced by one penny per. pound from to-morrow. PRISONERS SENTENCED NELSON, December 1. The following sentences were imposed to-day at tliq Supreme Court: Roland Walter Neilson, arson. thr,ce. years’ hard labour. , Cecilia Lillian. Neilson, false declaration; ordered to come up for sentence if callqd upon within two years. ... . .

John Tipora Martin Piki,, ex-Postal official, theft, twelve months’ reformative detention.

Thomas James Balfour Mason, thef.t, eighteen months’ hard labour.

COUNCIL TO PAY

CHRISTCHURCH, November 30.

Damages, amounting to £1250, were awarded by the Jury in the Supreme Court this afternoon, against the Ashburton County Council, in a case in which Leo. Robert Stoddart, a farmer, of Willowby, claimed from the Ashburton County Council the sum of. £2OOO as damages in respect of the death of his wife; Elizabeth May Gladstone Stoddart, who was killed on ihe Main South Road, just oyer, the southern end of the 'Ashburton ' traffic bridge, on the evening of August 18, when a gig; which she was driving, collided with a temporary f.ence erected by the County Council; DIVORCE DAMAGES. HAMILTON, November 30. A defended divorce action was'heard at the Supreme Court before Mr? Jus; lice Herdmap 1 a juyy of twelye. The petitioner was Albert Edward Vare, and the respondent Edith Vare. They were together formerly,' and had a, ipusie s'tipre, while the cQ-resppndent John Fisher, was fornpjrly a band, agent in the town. Petitioner claimed £5OO damages from the - correspondent. The jury found adultery hid been committed' and granted the petitioner £250. A decree nisi was granted, and costs were granted the petitioner on the highest scale, including cost-s which the petitioner has to pay for the respondent for an extra day wes certified at 15 guineas. The damages were ordered to bo paid into the Court within thirty days.