DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Tress Association.) BURGLARIES ADMITTED. •- CHRISTCHURCH, November 30. James Henry Davey, 23, a seaman, charged with burglaries at New Brighton, pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence. KNOCKED DOWN BY CYCLIST. AUCKLAND, November 29. Through being knocked down at Epsom by a bicycle, ridden by a boy, Mrs. Martha Keast, a widow, aged 51 years, sustained severe, injuries to her head, and was reported by the Hospital authorities to-night to be in a serious condition. widow's compensation. AUCKLAND, Nov. 29. A claim for compensation was made ’it the Arbitration Court- by Lydia lane Russell, against the' liißOn Steamship Company, as the sequel IP' he death of claimant’s husband, through being struck by a falling empty coal basket. The Court, which was asked only to assess the amount of compensa cion, fixed it at the full amount claimed, viz., £7so’,- yltis-J £29 10'/ ex penses, and £7 7/ cosfe’BUS ON FIRE. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 29. Mr S. E. Clements’s passenger bus, which left Christcil’U'ch for Oxford at about seven o’clock on Saturdaj’ evening. was destroyed by fire oil the trip. The mishap was apparently caused by a short circuit. The engine and | spare wheel were the only portions worth salvaging. The vehicle, which had seating jccommodatfon for 20 passengers, had been on the road only .’or about, a year. It is understood that the was insured. FIRE AT FACTORY. DUNEDIN, November 29. A lire broite out this evening in the “Evening Star” office’s box factory. The cause is unknown, but the outbreak, which was in a fiat containing £7OOO worth of machinery and an equal value of stock, was suppressed before any great damage was done. The building and contents are insured in fifteen offices for £18,150. Considerable loss will result from the fact that the factory was working at high pressure, doing a lot of work for the Phoenix Coy., whose plant was recently destroyed by fire. MOTHER AND BABY. CHRISTCHURCH, November 29. Declaring that she was not guilty of any criminal act, but rather of a foolish one, Mr. Justice Stringer to-day ordered the woman to come up J' ;r sentence when called upon in respect of the charge of unlawfully abandoning her child. His Honor said that it was hardly a case of abandonment in the ordinary sense. The Probation Officer’s report was favourable. His Honor suppressed the woman’s name from publication, stating that it was a case in which the public did not need protection, but in which the woman herself required to be protected. SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED. WANGANUI, November 30. Flora Ellen Williams, married, aged 41, was sentenced to-day to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour for a series of offences of shoplifting, spread over a period of six months. The value of the goods recovered was approximately £2l, chiefly drapery. Prisoner carried a large black bag on her rounds, with a handy open mouth into which goods were dropped. In passing sentence. Magistrate Barton referred to three kinds of offences far too common, namely thefts of bicycles by men, pillaging cargo by transport workers, and, unfortunately, shop lifting by women offenders. In these cases they could not expect a warning in each instance.