DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1927, Page 8

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) DEATH IN. OFFICE. MASTERTON, September 2. William Gillespie, commission agent, was found dead in his office this morning, "where he slept after working late last night. FALSE- PRETENCES. AUCKLAND, September 2. ; Gordon . MacDonald. .Gorgon, 30, commission agents, was convicted on three charges of theft and one of obtaining ‘ money by. false pretences, while employed selling electric radiators. He was sentenced at the Police Court to two years’ probation. ■ -fatal- explosion-.. - r CHRISTCHURCH, September 2. Mr. B. ,E. Dyson, Manager of J.. J. Niven and Co., Ltd.,,Christchurch, died on the way to hospital as the result of an explosion while trying a new burner on an oil-burning furnace. Nobody else was injured. HOUSES ROBBED. MASTERTON, September L As the result of four houses being .broken jntozand small sums of money and other articles taken, the police tp-day arrested at Woodville, Henry Beaumont, alias McKay, who will be charged .there to-morrow with breaking,. entering and theft. The total value of the appropriations from the residences is not yet known.

BURGLAB.BOBS TILL. AUCKLAND, September 2

A burglar climbed .a narrow waterpipe to the upper- storey of the Tramway Depot at Freeman’s Bay and smeared treacle on the window, which he broke, and gained an entrance. The windows leading to the office of the tramway . employees’, club room and the till in the. office were both forced open with a jemmy. About £3O was stolen.

HOMESTEAD ABLAZE. CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 2.

The twelve-roomed homestead of Mr William Vosper, “Dingley Dell,” at Pukekura,, three miles. from Cambridge, was totally destroyed by fire at, 1. a.m. torday. The outbuildings, dairy, washhouse, storeroom, men’s room and a. semi-detached (.billiard room were, also destroyed. The, building of twelve rooms; was the home of the Vespers-for many ;years and, .was a well-known landmark. The, insurance on the building is £lBOO,. and, on the contents £BOO, both in the South British Office.