DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(P®r PreM Association.) GIFT TO HOSPITAL. GISBORNE, October 22. At a meeting of the Waiapa Hospital Board, Mr A. B. Williams made an offer that if five hundred pounds were subscribed by the public, he would provide £1250 to make up the sum required for hospital purposes. i BABY’S BODY IN SACK. AUCKLAND, October 22. The body of an infant child, enclosed in a §H®k, was found or. St. Heliers Bay beach early yesterday morning. it had apparently teen m the water for a considerable time A post mortem examination will.be made.

TAKA PUNA TR AMWAYS. AUCKLAND, October 22. The Takapuna Borough Council’s proposal to purchase the Tramways and Ferry Company’s plant for £65,000 was carried at a poll of tiu e municipal electors, by 1367 to 1042. The raising of the money to give effect to the proposal has yet to be sanctioned by a poll of ratepayers.

BOY’S DEATH

AUCKLAND, October 22.

A versatile and talented entrant in the Auckland competitions died suddenly on Tuesday evening. He was Ken Hill, aged 11 years, a Wed lington lad, who was very popular with his fellow competitors and with the public. The boy arrived In Auckland last Thursday morning with his parents. He told them then that he felt tired and sick, and, on Tuesday evening, he died.

FATAL STONE-THROWING. GORE, October 22.

As the result of being hit by a stone thrown by another boy near Knapdale School, Richard William Newman, aged 12 years, died at Gore Hospital from a fractured skull and from haemorrhage of the brain. Newman took another boy’s har, and the latter retaliated by throwing stones. The Coroner at the inquest returned a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider urging the necessity of teachers and parents warning children of the danger of throwing stones at each other, or at insulators.

MAN POISONED.

AUCKLAND, October 22.

Seen tc enter a lavatory in the Royal Hotel shortly after half-past one yesterday, - James Burns Young, aged about 56, a land salesman, was found a few minutes later lying on the floor in a dying condition. The discovery was made by a painter who was working on the premises, and whose attention was attracted by deceased’s groans. Near the body a bottle bearing a poison label was found. Medical aid was summoned, but life was extinct. Deceaseds was a widower, and resided at Aterangi Road, Greenlane.

CLERK’S TROUBLES. HAMILTON, October 22.

George Herbert Bellamy, clerk to the Cambridge Road Board, appeared cn remand for sentence this morning for tho theft of sums totalling £44 Is 3d. He received three years’ probation, full restitution of the stolen money to be made.

The Magistrate said he was extending leniency because the accused in the past had a respectable record. Illhealth and financial troubles were responsible for his failure for a period of one month to have the trust accounts audited by a qualified accountant at the end of the year.

KILLED IN TUNNEL. WELLINGTON, October 22.

A Chinese was knocked down in one of the tunnels near Paekakariki at 4 o’clock this morning by a goods train from Wellington, and he sustained injuries to which he later succumbed. The unfortunate man was placed on another train at Paekakariki, and was brought back to Wellington. At Johnsonville he was examined by a doctor, and when the train arrived at Wellington he was conveyed in a waiting ambulance to the hospital. He was admitted to the hospital at 7.45 a.m., suffering from injuries to his head and body, and he died about half an hour later. The victim has been identified as Ngau Lie, an Otaki gardener, aged 66 years, a single man.