DOMINION NEWS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 March 1925, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS

SUPREME! COURT AT 'GISBORNE. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATIONGISBORNE, March 9. The Supreme Court opened this morning. Judge Alpena congratulated the district on the absence of crime, there being only one defended case. On. behalf of the Law Society, Mr. P. AY. Nolan extended a welcome to the new judge. DEATH FROM POISON. AUCKLAND, March 9. Charles Poo-ley, a widower, aged 61 > died at the hospital from, poison, which he is reported to have taken, on Friday night. HISTORIC RFNUNGA. THAMES, March 9. HJotomii. the carved rununga which was. erected at Tarawa!, Thames, about 1870, wa.s. handed over to- the trustees of the Auckland Museum on Saturday for safe keeping. This step was decided: upon because of the inability to keep the place in repair. The house was carved by the Arawa tribe and is a replica: of that shown at Wembley Exhibition. which was originally intended for Parawai, hut a suggestion was made that it should go to the British Museum. The tribe agreed to set- to work to carve another to take its place. Hbtonui has been the scene of many notable gatherings, during the last fifty years, of tribes of the Hauraki. Begret was expressed at its removal, but the museum was considered the best place #or it. LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT. PALMERSTON N., March D. A. narrow escape- from a. fatal accident occurred at the Square- this morning. Mary Williamson, a. nurse at the public hospital, was struck by the incoming Wanganui, train. The unfortunate. woman, who had apparently walked in front of the train, was thrown on to the other side of the rails, where she was caught by the under structure of a truck and dragged along the asphalt toad before she Avas swept clear of the Avheels. M iisisi Williamson was severely injured on the right arm and chest. She Avas admitted to hospital.