DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1927, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) GISBORNE SESSIONS. GISBORNE, June 13. The Supreme Court opened to-day before Justice Ostler, with a light calendar, there being four cases for trial, true bills being found in each. STRUCK BY TREE.' CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. Colin Reeve, a young man, living in Kinsoock Street, was. struck on the head this morning by a tree which he was engaged in falling. He was taken to the hospital, and his condition is serious. BOY RIDER KILLED. WAIMATE, June 13. Thomas Kinsman, aged ten years, of Douglas Settlement, was killed through a horse which he was riding, slipping on the greasy face and bolting, dragging the boy some distance. He died a few minutes after'. ODDFELLOWS’ JUBILEE. MASTERTON. June 12. The Loyal Masterton Lodge of Manchester Unity of Oddfellows celebrated the golden jubilee at a banquet on. Saturday night. There was a large influx of brethren and sisters from all parts of the Wellington district, while Lodges in Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Canterbury, and Otago were also represented. The proceedings were marked with great enthusiasm An impressive church parade this morning was attended by a large gathering of representatives of the order. BURGLARY AT FLAT. CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. Au’impudent burglary occurred in a flat occupied by Mr. Harris in Cashel Street on Thursday evening. While Mr. Harris and his wife were sleeping, a burglar entered their bedroom, and removed Mr. Harris’s trousers, which were hanging only a few feet from the sleeping owner. In all about £2O worth of goods were taken. The burglar apparently visited every part of the flat, taking what suited him. Included in his takings was about £5 in money.

MAN’S THROAT CUT. WELLINGTON, June 13. The story told to a Constable in Manners Street at 2.30 a.m. on June 3, was upset in Court to-day, when Henry Hewitt, a middle-aged man, pleaded guilty to attempting suicide. With his throat cut, Hewitt, told the constable that while sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout on the Oriental Bay beach, someone attacked him, causing injury. Senior-Sergeant Lande:- told the Court that Hewitt certainly had been drinking, but had cut his throat in a fit of depression. Accused was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and to pay costs.

ALLEGED GAMING. AUCKLAND, June 12. Detectives raided a room on the fifth floor of the Chatfield Buildings, Customs Street at ten o’clock last night, and arrested over thirty men who were later charged with being found in a common gaming house. It is stated the police made their way upstairs and silenced the doorkeeper. They then rushed inside, and surrounded a. table, at which a number of mon were sitting and shaking a box of dice. Money and various apparatus were seized before those present realised the position. While an exhaustive search was in progress, one or two men entered the room, and were also arrested. One man was charged with keeping a common gaming house. AUCKLAND, June 13. The police raid on a boxing school in Customs Street on Saturday night resulted this morning in Frederick William Batchelor being fined £6O, in default two months’ imprisonment, for keeping a common gaming house. His assistant, David Simon, was fined £3O, and about thirty clients were* fined amounts ranging from £1 to £5. The fines on the men arrested totalled £228. CHINESE DEPORTED. WELLINGTON, June 13. Wing Nang, alias Wing Lam, a Chinese, aged 37, Vas charged in the Magistrate’s- Court with remaining in the Dominion after the expiry of his permit to do so. The Collector of Customs said that Nang came to New Zealand in April, 1925, and had the permit extended several times on the ground of illhealth, but the last extension overran the time limit. The Collector said that the first available steamer would leave New Zealand on June 24, and Nang could be placed aboard her. The Chinese Masonic Society was meanwhile prepared to enter into a bond of £lOO if he were given his freedom. The Magistrate made an order for accused to come up for sentence on June 25, pointing out that if he failed to leave New Zealand he would be dealt with drastically.