DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 July 1928, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Preaa Association.)

OTAKI MISHAPS.

OTAKI, July 6.

Airs Fogden, aged 83, was yesterday knocked down by a car and badly injured. A motor van owned by Charles Cooksley was last night burned tithough back-firing.

THEFT OF MACHINERY. INVERCARGILL, July 5. Francis Augustus Stempa was convicted of stealing milking machine parts to the value of £25, the property of Wilkins, Ltd., Invercargill. Sentence was deferred until after the hearing of other charges againstaccused in the Supreme Court.

OPIUM SAIOKERS. WELLINGTON, July 5. Following a ‘raid on a house specially fitted up for opium smoking. Low Leong was fined £5O, in default three months’ imprisonment. A charge against Wong Hong was dismissed, there being no evidence that he was smoking.

STOWAWAYS FINED. GISBORNE, July 6

Four stowaways on the steamer Katoa from Auckland, were fined £3, in default three days in gaol,, by the Magistrate this morning. The accused were David Russell, 2.7, Henry Wixon, 23, Norman Travers, 22, and George Trillo, 22. THEFT OF SKINS. INVERCARGILL, July 5. Charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with breaking and entering the wool and skin store of William Johnston, of Wyndham, and stealing opossum and rabbit skins, to an approximate value of £B5, Benjamin John Morah admitted the offence, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN, July 5. Annie Samson, single, 31 years of age, was found dead in bed, at 9 o’clock this morning, in a room which she had rented in Moray Place. She had been suffering from heart trouble and an affection of the eyes, for which she had been treated by a doctor. KILLED BY CAR. HAMILTON, July 4. The seven-year-old son of Air AV. A. Brinkley, of Alangaiti, was knocked down and killed on the Te ArohaPaeroa highway, by a motor-car containing members of the Thames Valley Power Board, who were returning to Thames from a Board meeting.

TRIMMER’S SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, July 5. A tragic incident marred the voyage of the Shaw Savill Coy’s ship, Arawa, which arrived at Auckland from Southampton. ' • ’ At 4 o’clock on the morning of June 8, two days before the vessel arrived at Colon, a trimmer named Dennis Cain, aged 21, jumped overboard from the main deck into the shark infested waters of the Carribean Sea, and was never seen again. A lifeboat was launched, but after an exhaustive search, returned to report no trace of him. Cain had signed on at Southampton. 'SUICIDE IN BATHROOM. DUNEDIN, July 5. Louisa Edith Keenan, who resided at Melbourne Street, South Dunedin, was found by her son at the point of death when he called at her home at 11 o’clock this morning. It was the. son’s habit to call on occasions during the week to see his mother, and when he went to the house this morning he found her lying in the, bathroom, with a severe wound in her throat and a razor on the floor nearby. Death followed in a few minutes. At an inquest held in the afternoon, it was stated that deceased, who was 57 years of age, had been in ill-health, ,and a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. NEW RAILWAY. ROTORUA, July 5. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and other local bodies last night, strong .protests were voiced at the .tone of the articles in the Auckland “Star” and “Sun” in respect to the Rotorua-Taupo railway, and especially with regard to a message from the Bay of Plenty Develpment League, opposing construction. In view of the fact that the League at its annual conference had unanimously supported the project, the meeting decided to write to the Premier expressing appreciation and congratulating him on fulfilling his promise after two royal commissions had reported favourably; also that copies of the letter be sent to the Minister of Works, Mr F. F. Hockly, M.P., the New Zealand Settlement and Development League, “Star,” “Sun,” “Evening Post,” “Dominion,” and the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.