DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)

MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. WELLINGTON," June '2o.' . A rider named Bright was. injured in a motor cycle race on Saturday. He has now recovered consciousness. His injuries are not believed to be serious.

SEAL STRANDED. AUCKLAND, June 2L A magnificent elephant seal was stranded on a mud flat at Otahuhu, and captured after a hard fight, and taken to the Zoo. .

MANAIA WRECK.

AUCKLAND, June 20.

. The price paid by Cory-Wright brothers, of Tairua, for the wreck,of, .(the Mana.ia was £IC6. The purchasers are employing a gang of men io remove everything possible while the weather remains fine.

BABY KILLED. ; , AUCKLAND, 1 June 21. A, ten-months-dld child, Robert •Srnest Newby, whose parents reside it New Lynn, fell oil a stone ind fractured its skull and died at the hospital.

WOMAN DROWNED.

DUNEDIN, June 21.

. ,Afi distressing drowning fatality ocmrred at’ Taleri-mouth yesterday. Mrs tVjlliam Grey, of. Roslyn,’ slipped on some .rocks,. struck her .head and fell nto the water and was dead when recovered from the water!

“BISHOP’S” ARRIVAL. AUCKLAND, June 21. A passenger arriving by the Niagara, due..a,t. noon to-day, is the Rev. J. D. Jones, sometimes referred to as the Nonconformist Bishop of England,. He delivers addresses at ri~nd, then leaves for Wellington en route to Australia. FISHERMEN'S ORDEAL. AUCKLAND, June 21. Alter. drifting helplessly in the Hauraki Gulf for several days, the small fishing yacht Restless, and two occupants, Norman Patterson and Charles Morgan, were towed back to Auckland from Motutapu last night. They had engine trouble at Motutapu on Wednesday. They walked across the Island and had been living on fish for two days. They had no food for the last twenty-four hours.

TRAWLER FINED.

AUCKLAND, June 20

John Veale, master o,f the trawl “Countess,” owned by. Sanford, Ltd., was fined £5 f.pr .trawling inside Gie limits in Hauraki Gulf. • <

The Magistrate, Mr, Cutten, . • said that he did not think that the defendant had any deliberate intention, but he was cutting it too fine. He had? no business to take risks, Tlje Magistrate said that, in the circumstances, he did not think that the master should have a further penalty imposed on him.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. AUCKLAND, June 21. At the Supreme Court in’ the case of May Hunia? charged witi. at Raws, it appeared ’ that sho married a Maori youth of 19 when herself 14 or Maori youth of 19 when herself wag 14 or 15 years old, and married a second time in 1915. and had nine children. Judge Stringer dismissed the charge saying ; “Let her go back to her children.”

In the case of breaking and entering and theft against Harold Waterloo Pell, 18, the Judge granted a remand for a week to give accused a chance to disclose the name of his accomplice.

LAUNCH ON FIRE.

TAURANGA, June 21.

A distressing accident occurred here yesterday afternoon, Robert Gray, aged sixteen, went out alone in a launch. When near the harbour entrance, the engine gave trouble, and backfired, and threw Gray down, and rendered him unconscious. The launch took fire, and the boy was severely burnt on the face, arms and legs. Later he regained consciousness and despite his injuries rowed in the dinghy a short distance, when he was seen and taken to the hospital, where he lies in a critical condition. The launch was badly burned and sank.

RAILWAY STATION ROBBED

AUCKLAND, June 20.

A burglary was committed at the Remuera railway station on Saturday morning, the safe of the booking office being blown open with gelignite. The drawers of the safe and the contents, cheques and cash amounting to £4O, of which £lB was in cash, were removed. The drawers of the safe were afterwards found under a bridge fifty yards from the station, but none of the contents had been left. The amount of explosive used must have been large, as the door of the safe was badly mutilated. Residents near the station heard the explosion early on Saturday but though it was due to the puncture of a tyre.