DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEE PEEBB ASSOCIATION.] 3 NELSON COLLEGE OLD BOYS. MASTERTON, December 19. A Wairarapa branch of the Nelson , College Old Boys’ Association was 3 formed at a meeting held in Masterton ’ to-night, attended by ex-pupils from 1 all parts of the district. It was decided to hold the first annual re-union •cn People’s Day of the Masterton Show. FATAL BOUT. 1 ASHBURTON, December 10. Earl George Dibinett, 41, labourer, married, was found dead in a shed at his residence yesterday. At the inquest, the evidence showed that deceased was addicted to drink, . and after receiving relief pay last Friday week, started a bout, his wife finding a methylated spirits bottle on him yesterday. Later a doctor was called but found deceased dead. The verdict was death due to coma, caused by di inking methylated spirits. GREEN MAINTENANCE. CHRISTCHURCH, December 19.

In tho case in which Green was sued at (he Magistrate’s Court, defendant, continuing his evidence, said that if the City Council would not accept the statue which he had ordered, of James Edward Fitzgerald, he knew of someone who would accept it; and who was willing to erect it on ground that did not belong to the City Council. Counsel for the parties then retired to confer, and the Court adjourned. On resuming the hearing was adjourned until January 14. CHINESE AND OPIUM. ' CHRISTCHURCH, December 20. Chinese premises in Quaid’s Road, Belfast, were raided by the police,; yesterday, and as a result, at the Police Court, to-day, the occupier,’] Fong Lee Ho, gardener, who had been before the Court three times' previously, was fined £lOO with] costs, by Magistrate Mosley, for pur-1 mitting the place to do used fori smoking opium.

Lay Sum, for being on tho premises without lawful excuse, was fined £l2/10/- with costs. SIR J. GROSE. AUCKLAND, December 19. After an extended trip abroad, Sir James Grose, Genera! Manager of tho National Bank of New Zealand, returned by the Rangitata. lie was accompanied by his daughter, • Miss Grose. His son, E. R. Grose, who travelled to England with his father, remained at Cambridge University, where he has taken up his studies in chemical research. Sir James said ho did not feel inclined to comment at length on affairs in England, although it appeared that conditions were steadily improving, and there had been a marked increase in public confidence. During his tour, Sir James toured various parts of England, Scotland and Wales, in addition to visiting the Channel Islands.