DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)

ALLEGED BIGAMY.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 14.

Matilda Reynolds was committed for trial on a charge of committing bigamy, it being alleged that she married John Farrell, in Christchurch, on April 10, 1929, having been married on December 24, 1887, at Halswell ,to Michael Reynolds.

“CONVERTED” CAR

CHRISTCHURCH, May 14.

Edgar Hale was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for conversion of a motor car which he involved in two collisions. For being intoxicated whilst in charge of a car, he was convicted and discharged.

FIRE AT FEILDING. FEILDING, May 14.

A large dwelling, owned and occupied by George Wells, in Chamberlain Street, was badly damaged by fire last night. Practically all the contents were destroyed by fire and water. The fire apparently started in the kitchen and was well alight when the brigade was summoned.

WOMEN’S COUNCIL. GISBORNE, May 14

The conference of the National Council of Women spent most of the morning discussing r,emits affecting the constitution of the Council, several minor alterations being made. Remits dealing with education, urging smaller classes, more class rooms, and more attention to retardates were also carried.

JUMP INTO HARBOUR. WELLINGTON, May 13.

About one o’clock this afternoon, a man was discovered sitting on a stringer beneath Eastbourne ferry wharf, and he declared his intention of drowning himself. Two civilians attempted to secure the man, who immediately jumped into the unpleasantly cold water, but he was grasped by a constable who appeared on the scene, and was brought shivering to the wharf, and thence to the police station.

STUD RAMS KILLED. WAIPUKURAU, May 13.

A heavy loss has befallen Mr George E. Merriken, sheep farmer, of Hatuma, near Waipukurau. On Saturday night, after treating over ninety stud Southdown rams with a well-known firm’s sheep tablets, Merriken turned the rams into a paddock of green oats. The feed almost immediately set up a scour in the flock. As a result the ninety rams died. Apart from the loss of his stud at this season of the year, the owner estimates his financial loss at over £9OO. \ ’

SLY GROG.

INVERCARGILL, May 13.

In the Police Court to-day, Edward Nichols, aged 35, was fined £lOO on each of two charges of unlawfully making spirits and of having in his posesssion an unlicensed still or worm suitable for distilling. The accused pleaded guilty to both charges. Mrs. M. O’Brien was fined £5O for occupying premises on which the distillation was carried out, but a recommendation is to be made to he Governor General for the remission of her fine in whole or in part. The Magistrate reserved his decision in the case of Bayne Robertson, the young man who was found on the , premises.