DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[FEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] BODY IN BAG. WELLINGTON, August 14. The body of a newly-born full-time male infant, sewn up in a canvas bag was found near the water’s edge on the beach near Happy Valley, on Saturday. WATERSIDER INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, August 15. A watersider, John 0. Wilson, 54, was seriously injured while working on the Waikawa at Lyttelton. Wilson was ascending a ladder, when a sling came adrift, the contents striking him. He received a fracture of the jaw,, and his left ear was almost severed.

WARSHIP CRUISES. AUCKLAND, August 14. The cruiser Dunedin, returned to Auckland to-day, after two months’ cruise among the Islands of the Wetsern Pacific. The cruise was uneventful. The cruisers Dunedin and Diomede will leave on August 22, for northern waters, to carry out combined exercises and manoeuvres, with the Canberra and the Australia, of the Royal Australian Navy. ALLEGED SEDITION. WELLINGTON, August 14. After hearing long addresses by each of the accused, the Magistrate, Mi’ Page, to-day reserved his decision in the cases against John Harvey Blair. Albert Jas. Birchfield, Richard Henry Webb, Herbert Richard Bryan, William O’Reilly and Leslie Raymond McDowell, charged with printing and publishing a book expressing seditious intention. Decision was also reserved in a further charge against Bryan of having such a book in his possession for sale or distribution. A similar case against Charles MorMs Brooks was dismissed on the ground of insufficient evidence.