DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 January 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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FATAL INJURIES GISBORNE, January 6. Alexander Mcßae, 50, manager of the Rere Station, who sustained injuries a week ago, as the result of his coat being caught in the belting of an electric motor, died in the hospital last night. . KILLED BY COW STRATFORD, January 4. William Rookes, eight years of age, was knocked down while bailing cows at milking time on Sunday evening at his home at Radnor Road and was admitted to the Stratford Hospital later suffering iapparently from no more Than a gash in the forehead. He told the nurse that the cow stood on him. In spite of an operation, which revealed internal injuries, he died on Tuesday night. PRIEST’S SKULL FRACTURED. AUCKLAND, January 5. A fracture of the skull was suffered by Rev. Father J. Doherty, the parish priest at Paeroa for the past three years, at Waihi beach during the New Year holidays. Father Doherty, who is 37 years of age, was climbing a bank after a bathe, when he slipped and . struck his head on a rock embedded in the soil. His injury was found, upon examination, to be more serious than it at first appeared, and he was admitted to the Hospital in Auckland, to-day, in an unconscious condition. CHINESE TRIMMER. TIMARU, January 5. After deserting the ship Benreoch, which sailed early this morning for France, and provoking a long, fruitless all-night search in stormy weather, a Chinese trimmer, Wong Chun Loi, was arrested in the street this afternoon. Loi, when accosted, was accompanied by a Timaru Chinese, but the police could get no satisfaction from either. All the help that Loi gave was “Ship gonee!” His companion explained” that Loi had lost his way after leaving the ship . to purchase a store of tobacco. The ship sailed after the agents had put up a bond of £2OO. It is understood that Loi will be deported by the Benledie, which is in New Zealand waters.