DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1928, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Aoaociation.)

NEW PLYMOUTH LOAN NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 2. The Borough Council last night adopted the report of the electric lighting committee, recommending a loan of £7G,500 for the extension of light and water services.

KILLED BY CAR. AUCKLAND, October 2. Alfred McFarlane, 22, a resident of Mount Eden, died in hospital as the result of injuries caused by being knocked down by a motor car last evening.

WOMAN DROWNED.

DUNEDIN, October 1

This afternoon the body of a woman ■who was afterwards identified as Catherine Willis Begg, wife of Dr Begg, was found iu the surf on the St. Kilda side of Lawyer’s Head, by a boy named Thomas Provan, who lives at 13, Market Street, St. Kilda. The body was removed to .he morgue, and an inquest was opened tonight, with Mr H. W. Bundle sitting as Coroner. Evidence of identification was taken, and the inquest was adjourned sine dine.

CHINESE GAMBLERS. WELLINGTON, October 2

Detectives raided a number of suspected houses in Taranaki, Tory and Vivian streets, yesterday, and arrested twelve men, mostly Chinese, for keeping gaming houses or being found on gaming premises. The Magistrate remarked that he did not propose to waste time on the defendants, and after hearing the police case stated, and what counsel for the defence had to say, imposed a fine of £2O each on two of the accused, and £2 and £2 10/ in other cases.

VALUELESS CHEQUES.

NEW PLYMOUTH, October 2

In the Police Court this morning, George Edward Bersasee, alias Nilson, pleaded guilty to three charges of forging and uttering cheques, in the name of A. N. Coyne, an Inglewood fanner, who had employed him. When leaving Coyne’s employ, he stole four •blank cheques, three of which he had passed. The fourth was found in his possession when arrested at Hamilton.

He was committed to. the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence, and also remanded to Dannevirke on a charge of forging and uttering a cheque there in April.

CARGO PILLAGING

INVERCARGILL, October 2

At Bluff to-day, the police made' a search of the steamers Port Napier and Manuka for stolen property. As a result, several firemen appeared before Messrs W. B. Dixon and McDougal], Justices of the Peace, to answer charges. Edward James and Charles Arnold, firemen on the Manuka, were charged with receiving goods valued at £2O from some person unknown. Each was convicted and fined £lO, with costs 10/. Henry Janies Montgomery, charged with stealing six pound tins of mill?, was fined £l, with costs, while (William Taylor was fined an equal amount. It was stated that the goods were stolen from the Port Napier.

DISEASE AND DESPAIR.

CHRISTCHURCH, October 1

On September 15, Edward Tatnell, aged 45, a labourer, died in his bedroom. Suicide was suspected, and the inquest was adjourned in order that a post mortem might be made. Dr Pearson (Pathologist at Christchurch Hospital) who made the post mortem, gave evidence during the resumed inquest to-day that he had discovered extensive tuberculosis in both lungs, ‘and in witness’s opinion, Tatnell would not have lived very long. Mr Theodore J. F. Grigg, Government Analyst, said he had examined a tumbler and jar found in Tatnell’s room, and had found in them traces of poison. The verdict was that Tatnell committed suicid? by taking poison.