DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

TWO SUDDEN DEATHS. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, April 19. Two sodden deaths were reported to the coroner this morning. A Maori infant was born at Townley Hospital, but expired soon after birth. Wiiiiani Arthur Aston, aged 54, a single, man, suddenly collapsed and died before medical ail could be obtained.

A SERIOUS ALLEGATION

CHRISTOHRCH, April 19

A man named Broacl, a resident ol InveiAargill, alleges that he gave £BOO to the purser of the Maori on Saturday evening and when he got the wallet bade yesterday, it contained on y £7OO. ...Le police are aiivestigating the ease. Tlie money had been won at Wellington races. FIRE AT PARAPARAUMU. OTAKI, April 19. A five-roomed house at Paraparaumu, owned by Mrs. Jack Field and occupied by Mr. Eric Weggery, was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. The insurance on the house teas £3OO only. The cause of the fire is a mystery.

REPORT CONTRADICTED WELLINGTON, April 19. The report from Auckland that Mrs. Ferner had been appointed to the Children’s Court at Auckland is contradicted officially. Such appointments are made by the Minister of .Education in connection with the Child Welfare branch of the Education Department, which is considering the position, but has not yet made any appointments.

A NEGLIGENT CYCLIST.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 19. Walter Smith, a youth, was charged this morning with riding a bicycle negligently. He was ordered to come up foij sentence, provided he does not ride a. cycle for six months. The case was the result of a collision caused by Smith crashing into a lorry. He had his head down and was scorching.

A SAD CASE. CHRISTCHURCH, April 19. When a grief-stricken girl, aged 18, was charged with attempted suicide this morning, the police said that this was the second attempt, due to the father objecting to the girl’s lover. Previously she threw herself over a cliff, and last week she took poison. The hearing was adjourned for a conference between the parties.

CONDUCTED GAMING HO USES. WELLINGTON, April 19. As a result of two police raids on Saturday, George William Wood, aged 38, and John Watson Wood, aged 44, two brothers and both butchers, were charged to-day with conducting gaming houses. Hie police stated that ovTdence had been found that the former had taken 128 bets in two days, ntid the latter . 180 in a longer period. The amounts varied from 2s 6d to £l. Counsel for the defence asserted that these men were not big enough to be allowed to infringe the monopoly of this form of gambling. Each was fined £35. On a further charge of publishing double charts they were ordered to pay costs.