DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4156, 5 February 1916, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

(Press Association Telegram.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 4. An explosion of'kerosene last night, followed by a fire, seriously damaged tbe Sumner pumping station. Mr. Winter, assistant engineer, was afire from head to foot, and plunged into the river and escaped, but was seriously injured. He has been sent to the hospital. A big store of kerosene was destroyed. AUCKLAND, Feb. 4. David Walker, aged 55, a wharf worker, was killed this morning while carrying flour on a steamer. He fell between the vessel and the swing piles. His head was terribly crushed. Death was instantaneous.

James Joseph O’Donovan, aged 63, died in the hospital from injuries by falling down a staircase at his residence.

NAPIER Feb. 4. The Napier wool sales have been postponed indefinitely owing to lack of shipping. WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. At the Magistrate’s Co irt to-day the_ Magistrate, Mr D. G. A. Cooper, fined Ah Wong £SO and cost s for using premises in Haining Street as a common gaming house. For a similar offence Cum Ling and Joe Mee were fined £25. Yep Sing for assisting in the management of the lottery was fined £lO and costs, and Ah Yet for being found in a' common gaming house was fined 20s and costs. DUNEDIN, Feb. 4. At the Police Court to-day, George Thomas Gillies wa s charged with haviny committed mischief by killing a heifer valued at £3, the property of a neighbor. Accused pleaded guilty under aggravated circumstances and was fined £lO. A neighbor put a nine-months-old heifer on a vacant section -close to Gillies’. The latter became very much anncyed arid saici the animal was a nuisance, and informed his neighbor’s wife that unless the animal was taken away he would shoot it. It was still there next day - and Gillies went along with a rifle and fired seven shots, killing it. '.