Interprovincial News

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 240, 23 September 1922, Page 5

Interprovincial News

ITEMS FROM VARIOUS CENTRES. <Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. It is announced that a general average of 10 per cent, has been declared on cargo by the New Zealand Whipping Oo.’s Remuera. which collided with the Morengo recently in th© English Channel. Part of the Remuera’o <argo arrived at Wellington this week by the CorTnthic, and further consignments are on board the Paparoa, which is expected in Wellington on September 26. On Monday morning last, according to information received at the city notice station, a man named James McGrath, aged 40. employed on relief work at Kaitoke. strayed from the <amp and apparently lost his way ou the Rimutaka range. He was last seen at the summit of the mountains about 6 p.m. on Monday, but has not been seen or heard of since. Recently he received an injury to his head, which may be the cause of his disappearance. Search parties have been despatched over the surrounding country, but so far no trace of the missing man has been found. A constable on point duty at the intersection of Wilils street and Lambton Quay had an unpleasant but puzzling experience put before him last night. As a tram car passed a series of explosions rang out. and a bullet hit him on the lobe of the ear. An examination of the tramline showed seventeen revolver cartridge, mostly exploded by the tram in the groove of the rails. How they got there is a problem, as if deliberately deposited it must* have been done at the most crowded corner of the city and in the presence of the constable himself, CHRISTCHURCH. Hugli McFarlane, married, a carter, employed by the Tramway Board, fell from a dray at the gasworks this afternoon, and the wheel of the dray passed over his body. He died while being removed to the hospital WEST COAST. S.l. The iron bridge section of the Wewtyort Coal Co.'s Dei'.nistou mines was idle to-day as a. sequel to trouble with a trucker, who, it is alleged, knocked off be lore time and was dismissed, the trucker having had previous warning. James Edward Sara, shunter, aged 36, married, with a wife and two children, was killed in the railway yards at Westport at 7.45 last evening, through being run over by a truck whilst engaged in shunting operations. Deceased was an ex-New Zealand champion on the Work was suspended on the waterfront for the evening. At the Supreme Court at Greyniuuth Arthur Firnest Taylor Denniston, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to bigamy, was sentenced to six months. The evidence showed that the accused had a wife and two children in England. He had a good war record. He enlisted in the Domininou, living again with his wile in the Old Country during the war. On returning he went through a form of marriage with an Otira girl. Henry Newton was found guilty of the theft of two blankets and a quilt iruni the Dominion Hotel. Blackball and was remanded till Wednesday for ; sentence. An action was commenced by the National Mortgage Co. v. Mrs. St A. Thornton for the recovery of £590 advanced as a deposit on the purchase of a farm at Ngahere. The defence contends that the sons of the defendant are liable.