LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1926, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

DUNEDIN, July 29. Burglars broke into the premises of Fairburn Wright, and stole jewellery ipd fancy goods valued at £lOO. Entrance was eiiected by removing , a panel of a back door. AUCKLAND, July 29. At the Police Court, Paul Kokich, 37, charged with assault on a gaol warder, Fay, when the latter was walking quietly on a road. Counsel for defendant said the accused imagined circumstances had arisen to justify the assault, but now he admitted it was unprovoked. Accused was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. AUCKLAND, July 29. At the inquest on Thomas Clifford Rowley Thatcher, who died on July 9, one day after his solicitors had filed a defence in an action in the Supreme Court, brought against him by his son, evidence was given that an analysis of the stomach showed no trace of poison. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to syncope, caused by fatty degeneration of the heart. WELLINGTON; July 29. Elizabeth Ann Nevill, now remanded on a charge of murdering Elsie Davis, appeared this morning and was further charged with unlawfully using an instrument. She was remanded to August 4. Bail was fixed at £3OO, and two sureties of £l5O, and to report to the police daily.

WHANGAREI, July 29. Miners employed at Wilson’s Collieries, Hikurangi, went on strike yesterday afternoon. The mine was idle this morning. Although the officials are reticent regarding the cause, it is understood that the strike was due to the company declining to continue to make up to the minimum under the award, the wages of a certain miner. Owing to the flooding of the other company’s, mine at Hikurangi, one hundred and fifty men have been idle for two months, and an appeal for assistance is being made. NEW YORK, July 28. Meagre reports are coining from Santo Domingo, regarding the hurricane damage in that Island, which is estimated at three million dollars. A radio from the airship Ansaldo San Giorgio (which is crippled through a broken rudder) stated that she was row, bound for New York. The steamship Munamar, which arrived at Nassau (Bahama Islands) to-day wirelessed that the town was badly wrecked by the hurricane. The local radio station was blown down. LONDON, July 29. Mr. Amery in the Commons, received a deputation from Lancashire and Cheshire Commoners who submitted a report on Empire migration. Mr. Amery said that no one was more disappointed than himself at the slow progress in Empire settlement, which was th? most important constructive policy before the Empire. Cabinet was already considering training and testing prospective migrants-. He hoped the result would be an extension of such facilities. The report suggests the Imperial Conference in October will afford an opportunity for British and Dominion Governments to review the circumstances which caused the Empire Settlement Act to fail, and in the light of experience, remove the obstacles to migration, increase the encouragement to migrants in the crowded industrial districts.

WASHINGTON, July 28. Prohibition officials are highly elfited over the British agreement. They claim that the new regulations will,,put liquor runners virtually out of business. Officials outlined the three mam features(l) Exchange of smuggling intelligence between Britain and the United States; (2), stricter British registration of ships and. closer scrutiny of ships’ papers before clearance was granted; (3), authority for the United States coastguard boats to pursue run; ners into British territorial waters around the Bahama Islands. It is explained by the officials that under the new plan, British Customs officers will furnish American authorities with all information they possess concerning the movements of suspected ships. British, officials will also appear in Court for the United States to aid in the prosecution of shipowners. In return for this assistance, the United States will. give England., information likelv to prevent smuggling into Britain. .