DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1935, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] CAJI CAPSIZED. LEVIN, April 24., A car, driven, by Miss Halley, of Ohakune, overturned, while negotiating a railway crossing at Ohau yesterday afternoon. The driver received a scalp wound and was admitted to hospital. A passenger, Miss Kennedy, of 152 Armagh Street, Christchurch, received slight concussion, hut was able to proceed on the journey in another car. It appears that the car skidded on the wet bitumen and overturned. The body of the vehicle was a total wreck. DEERSTALKER SHOT. DUNEDIN, April 25. William Kingsley McFarlane, 28, farmer, of Clydevale, died in the Baidu tha Hospital early this morning. He was admitted, suffering from a. gunshot wound in the knee, received while deer stalking on the Blue Mountains. On Wednesday morning, the deceased went shooting with his brother, who saw a. stag. The pair .separated, and the latter brother fired, shooting the deceased in the knee. Dr. Radcliffe went out to discover the injured man was suffering severely from shock and loss of blood. He gradually sank in the hospital, and died. CRASH INTO POLE. AUCKLAND, April 25. A light sedan car crashed into a I heavy wooden tramway pole at two o’clock this morning with such force that the post was split in two for the greater part of its length, and the car was wrecked. . The driver, John A. Blandford, a visitor from Wellington, who had hired the car, had an astonishing escape from death. Nearby residents,, who were aroused by the crash found him conscious, and able to talk, but bleeding from head injuries. He was ad; mitted to the hospital, and underwent an operation. HOLIDAYMAKERS MAROONED. HAMILTON, April 24. To be marooned on a small island at Port Waikato on Sunday night was the unenviable experience of Mr H. Gordon and family and a of friends. They were spending Easter in a cottage on the jsland when streams surrounding the island, rose rapidly, cutting them off from the mainland. Cries for help were heard by the caretaker of a children’s camp in the vicinity. With the assistance of a local Maori lie rescued, the, campers, the Maori bringing, the children over a swollen stream on his back. The adults of the party were assisted over the stream with ropes. MAORI FAITH HEALER. HAMILTON, April 24. A Maori faith healer, Te Huiatahi Rawiri, is attracting large crowds of Natives and a few white people to the Native pa at Ngaruawahia, where numerous cases of healing are claimed to have been effected. The healing process is unorthodox, the patient being required to say: “To God, to King Koroki and to you I bring my ailments.”. Then follows the laying on of hands with a kneading motion. A Hamilton resident, an old man who was unable to walk, can now walk unaided, and the sight of one defective eye has been partially restored. A yopng Maori girl w’ho was suffering from curvature of the spine, is also claimed to have been completely cured by the healer’s ministrations.