DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 September 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

FIRE AT OHAKUNE. _ 5 \ • 1 (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION., OHAKUNE, Sept. 7. A five-roomed ’ house, occupied by L. Elder, was'.' witli its content's totally destroyed 'by fire early on Sundaj morning at phakune Junction. The occupants had left for _ Auckland on Saturday night, on a holiday. MOTORING ACCIDENT AT ' DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, Sept. 7. In a colision between a motor-cycle and a trambar on Saturday night John ißirke,' aged! aud liugh Graham, aged 28, wer e rendered unconscious and were admitted to hospital. They' were double-banking and failed to Negotiate a corner in Princes Street, striking th© car head on. SWAM, TO' EYAiDE AjRiRE^T.OHRISTCKUROH, Sep. 7. For forty-fLCd miiiultesi a man 'sought to evade arrest at Lyttelton early yesterday morning by swimming about the harbour. The incident followed a disturbance. Constables tried, to arrest him, but the , man saw them coming and took a, header into' the water. When 'he was exhausted he gave limiself up. A SERIOUS CHARGE. PALMERSTON N., Sent. 7. At the Police Court, Marcus Alfred Stapleton Mouldy/aged. 2s; a labourer, headed guilty find was committed to '•he Supreme ' Court aU : WePington for sentence/on a' ch arge 1 of' a tempting toasault a girl 11 years of age. The accused was chased by a cyclist, who heard the girl’s screams. Later, when the police "arrived on the scene the accused came out of his hiding place. He attributed the offence to drink'. DENTIST FINED. WANGANUI, Sept. 7. Arthur Edward 4 Cowper,' a dentist, was fined £2O and costs for permitting one A F Murray/ an unregistered dentist, to carry on the pVactice of dentistry in his name and .on his behalf. Murray was fined £5 for holding himself out as practising dentistry. Costs only were allowed on two other charges against Murray. FINED FOR CRUEI/L’V TO HORSES GISBORNE, Sent. 7. Hira Paenga* lhaViagbf 6f the' JVJoore estate who had left twenty-hye native horses’ for weeks in a: paddock with insnfficienet food and water. 1 Several dvintr from starvation, was fined the maximum, £2O; •' at 1 tlie Police Court to-day.