DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 December 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

YOUNG MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO

THEFT.

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 31.

Herbert William Wellington Upjohn, already awaiting sentence on several charges of- fraud, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to-day to steahng a typewriter valued at £22 from Hobday ahd, Co., of Auckland, of obtaining sporting goods valued at £5 10s from Frank Wiseman, Auckland, clothing valued at £ll from E. C. Brown, Auckland, by representing that he was connected with the Daily Mai l , and of stealing a leather bag valued at £2 10s from Francis King. He was remanded for sentence till after sentence had been passed on other charges. BLOODSTOCK SALES AT ELLERSLIE. AUCKLAND, Dec. 31. At the bloodstock sale at Ellerslie, which concluded this morning, the chief sales were: Respirator, 2yrs, J. Punch, Auckland, 115 guineas; blk.f., 3yrs, King Lupin—Semolina, W: H. Wacktow, 'BO guineas ; br.m. Spangle, by Martian —Nantes, J. T. Jamieson, 150 guineas; br.m. Martiques, by Martian —Everlasting, W. Scholium, 42 guineas ; Pompey; J. Sutcliffe, Auckland, 50 guineas; Romantic, J. Frederic, Stratford, 35 guineas; Sulla, J. W. Cook, Christchurch, 100 guineas; Bizarro, A. W. Cook, Hamilton, 135 guineas; Ballyon oy 11., N. Cunningham, Ellerslie, 700 guineas.

FATAL BENZINE EXPLOSION. TE KUITI, Dee. 31. The police yesterday Were notified of an accident whereby a Maori child met her death, while two others were burned, one seriously. The three children were playing on' the road at Mahoenui, thirty miles from Te Kuiti, and found a tin containing two inches of benzine. Thinking it was water they placed it on a fire to boil. A violent explosion occurred. One child, aged 10, sustained frightful- injuries and died next day, and another was brought into Te Kuiti hospital yesterday, and is in a serious condition. The third is making a good recovery. At the inquest yesterday the Coroner brought in a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider that motorists should exercise more care in leaving benzine about, leaving, benzine tins about.