DOMINION NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 19 June 1925, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

ANOTHER SHUNTER HURT. DUNEDIN. June 18. , Another serious shunting accident occurred in the railway yards last night, when the wheels >f a waggon passed over the arm oi’ John Alexander Birtles, 28 married, necessitating an amputation. CYCLIST KILLED. HASTINGS, June 18. Eugene Breen, 37, married, with four children, was riding a bicycle last night when he swerved into a side street, and collided with a motor cyclist, precipitating him to the ground ;?ad fracturing his skull. He dieil this morning. MONSTER OCTUPUS IN SWIMMING BATHS. WELLINGTON. June 18. A monster octopus, measuring 17 to 18 feet from the tentacles tip to tentacles tip, was caught in the Te Aro public baths, Wellington, yesterday. A man was on the point of diving into the water when he noticed something squirming along the bottom of the baths. He managed to retain his footing on the diving platform, and on realising what the creature was, he went for tho caretaker. Between them they dragged the b ute out with a fifteen foot fork and a boat hook. No one who saw it, could recall having seen such a large octopus before. If the brute did not get through the iron grids (on which the mesh is not more than two inches and bars no wider) it must have climbed up over the wall of the baths. FIJI TYPHOID EPIDEMIC. AUCKL.XND. J one IS Dr G. Findlay, who eturned from Suva this morning with four nursing sisters, states that the typhoid epidemic was traced to blocked main, which carried typhoid into the Domain and contaminated the town supply. About three hundred people, including 120 Europeans caught the fever. The deaths of white people numbered seven, ineluoing one or two New Zealanders. Suva is now quite safe for tourists. When Dr Frindlev left there were ro new cases except one or t dians, who were catching th-* fever from relatives. MOTOR SPI'FD MANIACS WARNED. AUCKLAND. -Tun,- 18. “I trust the yr.l-U- ' - that because the Chief Justice unset he Tnkapuna Boro;:?h C n-”:l Ev. law with reuard to speed ’ thought the limit of 20 miles an ho’ r was unreasonable,” said Mr Jns'n-o Reed at the Supreme Court yeste' ' after commenting on the excessive speeds maintained on certain road- in the city. “As a matter of fact. h<- doe« nor think that the limit is nnrc.tsonablo.” His Honor added. “I know, because I talked it over with him. He ws bound to hold that the by-law was un. reasonable, simply because the local authority itself thought so.” CYCLE ACCIDENT. XUCKT.AND, June IS. A motor cyclist, Leslie Hammond, aged ‘2l, collided with a pedestrian, Mrs ,T. Bold, at Onehunga to.night. Mrs Bold sustained a broken leg and cuts on the head. Hammond sustained injuries of a more or less serious nature to the head. Both were sent to the hospital. CO-OP BANKING NO FAILURE WELLINGTON t 17. Mr. Bolson (Farmers’ Union President) when a cable on June 4 appeared in the papers that a Danish cooperative bank failed, asked the Danish Consul at Sydney to inquire, and the Consul replies it was a joint stock bank that went into liquidation and that the co-operative Danish bank enterprise is no failure. Mr. Polson says this is tiie second rime such a misleading eab'e has been circulated all over New Zealand. COLLISION ACCIDENT. WWANGANUI, -Tune 17. As the result of a collision between a tram car and a motor cycle and a side car this afternoon, John Mitchell, a married man, sustained a fractured skull, arm and leg. He was taken to the hospital in a serious state.