DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

(Per Press Association.)

DRUNKEN MOTORIST. /UMARU,' M'ay 31. At the Magistrate's - Court, ■ .John J oseph McKay? charged With driving a motor car while in'! a 'state oh intoxication, was fined ten pounds, aik! prohibited from 'obtaining' -a ■ driver A license for twelve mdnt'hs. SEQUEL TO. CAROUSAL. CHRISTCHURCH, May 29. Arthur Small Johnston, aged 54. sharebroker, was charged tnis morning with having been found, drunk aim trespassing ill' a dwelling '.house in Hereford Street yesterday afternoon Evidence showed that Small had been drinking ■ with friends froth ‘ Dunedin, and’ later was; discoverfed by the lad.) of the house. ■ He was fined 10/- fod drunkenness, and £3 or ten days’ iriiprisonment for' trespassing.

THIEF SENTENCED.

AUCKLAND; May 31.

Albert Foster Smith, 21, describee by Detective Cummings as a professional thief, was cnarged at the Police Court with the theft' of chemists’ samples; also money from the coat of *a j fellow boarder . at one oi the leading’ hotels,'' and a camerai from the railway station. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each of . the two. charges, ,to be cumulative, and one year’s ' reformative detention. CROSSING SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH!, May 31. A serious atcident. occurred at 5.15 p.m. on : Saturday, when a motor-car driven by Stanley Walker, of Christchurch, collided with' the Southbridge train - at Prbbbleton crossing. There were four adult passengers, two children and two infants, in the car at the time. Mrs Lucy Gamble, of Graf ton Street, was the only passenger to receive serious injury. She was taken to the iChristchurch Hospital, suffering from concussion of the brain.' The driver had his left, leg hurt, and body severely bruised. !:•

BANK CLERK’S THEFT,

AUCKLAND,'.May: 31. ,

A young ledger keeper? recently employed at the Bank of New Zealand at Papakura, was arrested at Sydney and charged with forging a cheque, for £123 and drawing that sum from the depositor’s account. Accused pleaded guilty; and said that he was a single man -receiving £l7O per annum, He was in ill-health and wanted a drier climate. He cashed the cheque as he had no other means. He was committea Tor sentence, the Justices agreeing to a suppression of his name.

CHEMIST ACQUITTED. UHRiS'ICiiUitCH, May 31.

In the reserved judgment tills morning, Magistrate Widdowson dismissed ’a charge against George rlanafin, a chemist, of sending indecent documents through the post. I'he case was heard on March 2'4.

“It seems peculiar,” said the Magistrate, “that defendant should be charged with sending such documents, while newspapers insert advertisements that deal with practically the same thing, bnth control and surgical goods.”

SERIES OF MISHAPS.

AUCKLAND, May 31

James Couden Kennedy, married, with four children", died at the hospital from injuries received througn jailing from a moving tram. William Carlaw, forty-one, was knocked down by a tram in Parnelland lies at the hospital in a serious condition.

J. Stead, resident of Otahuhu, is in the hospital with a fractured skull, broken arm and minor injuries, through a basket of coal falling on his head. PAHIATUA, May 31.

Leslie Welton, twenty, had his right leg amputated at the hospital, the result of injuries received in a collision between his motor cycle and a motor car, late oh Saturday night.