DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1927, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) SUDDEN DEATH INVERCARGILL, Sept. 8. While viewing the flood waters at Wallacetown at 4 o’clock this afternoon, a married man named Alfred Challis collapsed and expired from heart failure. He had been under medical treatment for some time. STOLEN CAR BURNED. AUCKLAND, Sept. 9. Another motor car was found burned to-day after having been stolen by “joyriders” last night. This makes a total of eight cars so destroyed since the end of April. The car yas the property of Mr S. D. Beadnail of 144, Jervois Road, Ponsonby, and was valued at £450. It was left in Lower Albert Street at 8 p.m., and had disappeared at 10.15 p.m. It was found completely burned at St. H-elieis this morning. WOMAN’S LONELY DEATH. MASTERTON, Sept. 9. Elizabeth 'Laing, married, aged about sixty, was found dead in bed in her home this afternoon. It is believed her death took place about eleven days ago. Her husband had been away at a farm attending lambing operations for three weeks, and a faillire to get an answer to telephone calls aroused suspicion. The doctor states that death was due to heart failure. There will be an inquest tomorrow. OLD MAN'S SUICIDE. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 9. Frank Shackleton, an old age pensioner, was found seriously injured, and died in the hospital to-day. ; At the inquest to-day the Coroner found that Shackleton died of cerebral injuries, received when lie fell down the cliff, in having evidently thrown himself over the cliff while suffering severe mental depression. Evidence was given that Shackleton was subject to fits of depression. He had been an inmate of the Christchurch Old Men’s Home recently, and had left the Home on September 1, without telling anyone where he was going.

GELIGNITE MYSTERY WELLINGTON, Sept. 8. The police have now abandoned the idea that the sender of the infernal machine through the Post Office on Monday to Dlr. H. J. W. Lord was a woman. Detectives have been busy interviewing pepole in connection with the matter and they are confident that at any moment the. mystery will be solved, the number of people likely to know anything about it having been reduced to four or five. Enquiries have also been made in., likely quarters regarding the sale of gelignite. WATERED MILK AUCKLAND, Sept. 9. Charges of adding nine per cent, of water to milk and selling milk containing less than 8> per cent, of solids other "than milk fat, were preferred against C. DI. Becroft in the Police Court. Senior-Sergt. Edwards said 'the charts had previously been dealt with, and defendant had been fined £lO by Mr. Cutten S.M., but it was later discovered defendant had not been served with a summons. The conviction was therefore expunged from the records. Mr. Bell, who appeared for defendant, said he had two farms and employed a manager to control one farm where the milk was obtained. He had no personal concern in the matter. Defendant had already suffered from the publication of the previous conviction. Magistrate Hunt said he would not impose a heavy fine as defendant was not personally responsible. Defendant, was fined £5 with costs £4/17/4.