DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.

SLY GROG.

DUNEDIN, September 27.

At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Milton to-day, Alexandra William Robinson was convicted on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in the no license district of Bruce, and was fined £5O with costs.

CYCLIST INJURED

BLENHEIM, September 28

Nathan Haines, 20, when motorcycling through Renwick last evening, collided with a motor car driven by HoAvard Miller, sustaining a broken leg. He was taken to the hospital.

SEVERELY SCALDED.

WELLINGTON, September 26.

Shortly after noon to-day A. Lepper, a mechanic employed by McMahon Motors, Ltd., fell into a barrel of boiling water containing caustic soda. He was rushed to the Hospital suffering from severe scalds to the whole of his body. His condition tonight Avas reported to be very serious.

FIRE AT GARAGE,

DUNEDIN, September 27.

A fire broke out in Davidson and Gillies’ garage, in Moray Place, at 1.30 this morning, and three cars and the workshop AVere badly damaged. The Brigade Avere just in time to save the fire spreading to the main building and consequent serious loss. The portion of the building damaged is insured in the Victoria Office for £7O, and the contents, equipment and second-hand cars in the A.P.A. Office for £4OO, £lOO, and £5OO respectively. The total damage is estimated at £6OO.

FATAL DEPRESSION.

AUCKLAND, September 27

At the inquest on Joseph McDuff Otway, aged 61 years, who died at Auckland Hospital on September 11, a verdict of suicide by jumping over the Grafton bridge was returned. Constable EdAvards said that Otway was quite conscious after the fall, and said: “I jumped over Grafton bridge,

but I don’t know why I did it. I am sorry to have caused so much trouble.” A daughter of the deceased said that her father suffered from pains in the head, and was very depressed after having influenza.

HAWERA, September 27.

A verdict that death was purely accidental, having apparently been caused by lack of care in crossing the railway yards, and no blame being attachable to the men on the moving train, was returned by Mr. R. S. Sage, Coroner, at the inquest this afternoon on Samuel Brown, the railway cadet, aged 18, who died within half an hour from injuries received when run over by a rake of trucks that were being shunted at Hawera railway yards at six o’clock on the evening of September 19. The evidence showed that deceased, passing over the coupling of tw’o standing railway waggons, stepped directly into the path of the moving trucks on the next line. Three passed over him before he was thrown clear.