LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1936, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

WELLINGTON, July 27.

“Whenever I touch drink, everything seems to go black. I have had two bad motor smashes, with fractured skull in both cases,” said Dudley Holdsworth Smith, engineer, aged 25, who was charged before Mr Mosley, to-day, with converting a car. It was stated by the police that accused took a car in Auckland while drunk, and set out for Wellington. I-ie knocked down a pedestrian at Newmarket, gave a false name and address, and got to Rangiriri, where he abandoned the car, after it. ran off the. road. He has been charged before with,, similar offences. Accused was sentenced to six months’ hard labour.

WELLINGTON, July 27. A carpenter named William Percival Wansborough, aged 67, died on July 18 as the result of injuries received by the collapse of scaffolding, on which he was working, while painting the woodwork of a. glassing-in job he had done in the front of a house at Karori a week previously. At the inquest, today, the owner of the house stated deceased said: “I am surprised that the accident happened to an experienced man like myself.” Deceased fell twentv feet.

The Inspector of Scaffolding said the Department was not notified of the intention to erect scaffolding, which did not comply with the regulations.

The Coroner found that death was due to injuries received in a fall.

JERUSALEM, July 26.

Twelve Arab snipers out of fifteen, who ambushed a convoy of buses from Tel Aviv, were killed by a British escort and bombing aircraft. The occupants of the buses were uninjured.

WELLINGTON, July 27.

Liability for the loss of the right eye of David Bett, 23, pupil wallpaper salesman, consequent on a motor-car collision on the Hastings-Napier highway, on Easter Saturday, was admitted by Moss Wylie, of Hastings, dentist, before Judge Smith and a jury, to-day, when Bett claimed £4,500 damages.. The court had to assess damages. Defendant admitted that the collision was caused by his negligence. The case is proceeding.