DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(I’er Tress Association.) ARAWA’S MIGRANTS AUCKLAND, Nov. 25. The steamer Arawa, arriving to-day with immigrants, was four days behind her schedule time, the delay being due to a poor class of coal shipped at Antwerp during the British coal strike. MAIL SORTER ARRESTED. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov, 26. _ A young man was arrested this morning in Christchurch, on a charge of having stolen a mailbag. The theft is alleged to have occurred a few days ago, the mail being in transit from Waimate to Christchurch. The man was employed as a mail sorter at the Christchurch office. MOTORING FATALITY, CHRISTCHURCH. November 26. “I think I ought to comment on the practice of two people handling a jar, and neither knowing what the ather intends doing in regard to Tears, speed, etc.,” said the Coroner at the inquest on Mrs’. Matilda Featherstone, killed at Sumner on October 34. He returned an open verdict that the woman met'her death through' being crushed against a monument, by a car driven jointly by Henry Neale and William John Luff. FALL OVER CLIFF. TAUMARUNUI, November 26. Yesterday near Aukopae, about fifteen miles down the Wanganui river, Harry Roberts fell over a cliff and received fatal injuries. Deceased was employed by the Public Works Department and was engaged cutting scrub preparatory to road formation. Roberts fell some twenty feet. A stretcher was made by his mates, and the injured man was carried over rough country foi* five miles, but expired before medical attention arrived. QUARRY FATALITY TAUMARUNUI, Nov. 25. An inquest on Arthur Hasler, aged 36, the prisoner who met his death on Monday at Makatoka Viaduct Prison Quarry, through a fall of earth, was held before the District Coroner, Mr. A. S. Laird. After hearing lengthy evidence, he returned a verdict of accidental death, and said he would be failing in his duty if he did not call the attention of the Justice Department to the fact that there was not a certificated quarryman in charge of the work. It was clear that the quarry was not now safe, and keener supervision is such places was undoubtedly necessary to safeguard human life. “GERMAN GLOVES.” AUCKLAND, November 26. A statement in a Christchurch newspaper, in which J. L. Doherty, a former traffic inspector in the employ of the Auckland City Council, was reported to have stated he resigned his position because he would not tolerate German-made gloves, when on point duty on Armistice Day, was the subject of an inquiry by Mayor Baildon, yesterday. Doherty was present. In a signed statement, he denied having given such reasons for retiring from the employ of the City Council, and declared that the report was entirely without foundation. He added that his reason for retiring was entirely different from that given in the article. AGENT’S THEFTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 26. Probation was granted William Francis Halliburton, of Ashburton, when he came up for sentence to-day for receiving £152 ISs lid, and failing to account for it, and for stealing £5Ol 15s lid, from Mrs M. S. McArthur. K Justice Stringer said the case gave him much anxiety. His Honor believed that Halliburton had not intended dishonesty to appropriate the moneys, and would have repaid except for the failure of his business, resulting from the slump in land values. The Judge imposed special conditions that he pay the cost of the prosecution within three months from date, and there 1 after that he make restitution of the full amount as soon as possible. MOTOR THIEVES WARNED HAMILTON, Nov. 25. Laurence Burton was charged with the theft of two motor cycles, at the Supreme Court to-day. The evidence showed that accused purchased two old second-hand machines, and then stole two comparatively new ones. After interchanging some of the parts, he threw what remained of all four machines into the river. He was found guilty on one charge, and pleaded guilty on the second. In sentencing the prisoner to twelve months’ hard labour on each charge concurrently, the Judge remarked that the thefts were carried out. with considerable ingenuity. Motor thieves cordcl take this case as a warning of the severity with which they would be dealt with in future. KENT TERRACE. WELLINGTON, November ' 26. The controversy which has been going on for some months over alterations proposed by the City Council in Kent and Cambridge Terraces, the main outlet between north and south Wellington, has ended in the Council’s favour. At the southern end of the Terraces, which really form one broad thoroughfare', divided by a planted strip in the centre, the growth of shrubs and cabbage trees had attained considerable proportions, and lovers of nature declaimed against their destruction. They stopped the operations by means of an injunction and the matter was referred to Mr Page, S.M., who held an enquiry in open Court. He has decided that the proposed alterations are reasonable and necessary in the interests of traffic. Abandoned baby CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 25. The young married woman who was arrested in Blenheim early in the week on a charge of unlawfully abandoning her baby,- which was left on the steps of the Salvation Army Maternity Home, at Christchurch, on the night of November 16, appeared before Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning'. She was remand•ed till tomorrow, her name being suppressed in the meantime. CHRISTCHURCH, November 26. A married woman, 36, pleaded guilty this morning to abandoning a child on the doorstep of the Salvation Army Home on November 16, and was committed for sentence, and her name was suppressed. A tragic story was told how the woman; after the birth of three 'previous children, had to go to a mental hospital,, and was now'separated from her husband.