DOMINION NEWS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 July 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS

SI,TP INJURES THEATRE. (BY' TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 6. Damage estimated at several hundreds of pounds was caused to the Harbour Lights Theatre at Lyttelton yesterday through a clay bank at the t rear slipping owing to the recent heavy rain, and crushing the wall of the theatre. The wall, which is a. brick one, fell on to the stage. The main building was not affected. CHURCH JUBILEE AT PALMERSTON NORTH. PALMERSTON N., July 6. St. Paul’s Methodist Church at Palmerston North celebrated its jubilee yesterday. At the thanksgiving services conducted by Rev. Dr. Laws and Rev. Rugby Pratt large congregations assembled. The collections totalled £633. In the afternoon 230 men and women, at a solemn covenant service, took the covenant vows and partook of Holv Communion.

A LITTLE UNWANTED. WAIROA, July 6. Yesterday afternoon the dead body of a newly-born male child, contained in a weighted sugar bag, was found cn the beach at the mouth of the river. ACCIDENT TO RAILWAY PORTER, TAIHAiPE, July 6. A < shocking accident occurred at the rta-ilway station about 9.30 on Saturday evening. A porter named Ernest Solomon, aged 22, a married man, was crossing the line from the station to the goods-sihecls on an errand, and had passed through a line of trucks of a (stationary train when ho apparently stepped in front of two moving vans, which had been shunted off another brain. He sustained serious- injuries, involving the amputation of one leg below the knee and the ether below the groin. His plight was discovered about ten. minutes- after the- accident, and the injured man was conveyed to the hospital in an ambulance. He is progressing las well as could be expected in the circumstances.

THE MASTER TON EIRE. -MASTERTON, July 6. The insurances on Daniels’ sawmill was £2OOO on the machinery in the Norwich Union office. There was no insurance on the building or on three motor lorries which were burned. Also there was no insurance on £IOOO worth of finished work in the factory. The total loss is estimated at £II,OOO. ASSAULT CASE AT PALMERSTON. PALMERSTON N., July 6. An _ assault of a kind fortunately rare in Palmerston North took place on Saturday night in a Main Street hotel, when a man named Fitzgerald, a returned soldier, about- 30 years of age, was stabbed in the neck liv a man known to the police as “Snowy.” The affair was apparently in the nature of a- vendetta. Fitzgerald having forcibly dealt with a member of a rival gang, and on the morning of the affair had a conflict with “Snowy.” In the evening th e latter again' sought out Fitzgerald in a hotel, when a knife was brought into play, Fitzgerald suffering from four wounds in the neck, the knife fortunately missing the jugular vein. The licensee separated the pair, “Snowy” making good his escape. The police raided a . house in PittStreet, but found no trace of ‘‘Snowy,” who is believed to have escaped on a bicycle. Fitzgerald is not dangerously injured. “Snowy” is still at large.

AN APPEAL CASE. WELLINGTON, July 6. The appeal case of Wright and Nosworthy, party heard on April 27 at last sitting, has been continued. Counsel for the appellants are Mr Myers, K.C., with Messrs Donnelly and Brassington, and for the respondents Messrs Gresson, Upham and Evans. The appeal is lodged against the whole of a judgment of Mr Justice Reed, except such part- as declares (a) that the defendant Douglas George Wright was not entitled to purchase the stock on Surry Hills and Windermere ; (b) that the purchase of stock of the said estates had not been condoned by the beneficiaries, nor had they acquiesced in the sale; and (c) excepting such part of the judgment as orders that enquiries should bo made and accounts taken before the Registrar and an accountant as to whether the rate of interest payable between 1908 and 1924 by Douglas George Wright to the trustees was a proper rate, and (d) whether the- securities now held by the trustees are in order and'whether they are good and sufficient securities as required by the Trustee Act, 1908. Mr Myers opened for the appellants, and the case so far has been occupied with a discussion as to the profits made out of the estate.