DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

A DOMESTIC SQUABBLE. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.j DUNEDIN, Dec. 9. In the Police Court Henry John Dent, aged 63, was charged with assaulting his wife by slashing her body with a razor. He was ordered t; come up for sentence within twelve months, and take out a prohibition order. The police described the case as e common domestic ..squabble. Accused's face was scratched in the disturbance and becoming heated took a razor from a chest of drawers and slashed his wife who was liospitalled. Counsel said accused had liquor and returning home found- his wife the worse of liquor. She attacked him and he took a razor to protect himself. MOTOR CYCLISTS COLLIDE. SERIOUS INJURIES SUSTAINED. BLENHEIM, Dec. 9. Motor cycles ridden by young men named Herbert Shipley, of Blenheim, and Cyril Brodker, of Onamalutu Valley, collided, head on, in the middi of Ren wick Road, two miles out of Blenheim, at midnight on Saturday. Both were found in pools of blood and unconscious by a passing motorist. They wore liospitalled. Booker, who is in a critical con ditio'n, is suffering from a- fractured skull, left thigh and leg a,nd smashed finger. Shipley, who has a fractured skull, has a broken arm and bad wounds in the head and the ankle. He is improving.

SUDDEN DEATH AT SEA. AUCKLAND, Dec, 9. A wireless from the Canadian Transporter from Auckland bound for New York, states: —The Chief Steward, E. Can, died suddenly, presumably from heart failure. FOUND DEAD. t AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. Mrs Theodora Margaret Rastriek, aged 49, missing from her home at Newton since November 29, was found dead in a paddock at the rear of Mangoro Domain on Saturday afternoon. OFFICE BROKEN INTO. DUNEDIN, Dec. 9. During the early hours of Sunday the Hon. AY. B. Taverner’s offices in King Edward Street were broken into, apparently by tTie same gang that bad operated in the previous week on two safes. A Constable patrolling the railway embankment nearby noticed a skylight in the office broken a,lid on investigation foUnd preparations to dynamite the safe: By this time the intruders had escaped. FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. Bert Russell Fielder, 29. a motorman, recently separated from his wife, was found dead in a house on Sunday afternoon leaving a note as follows:—‘‘Mother please forgive me for dying this way.” Ho had previouslv told his mother he intended trying to make it up with his wife. At the inquest a verdict of suicide by poisoning was returned.

BATHER DROWNED. WELLINGTON, December 6. A sad bathing fatality occurred at Day’s Bay at about four o’clock on Saturday afternoon whom James Watson, aged 24, believed to have been boarding at Brooklyn, lost bis life. It seems that Watson, while bathing in company with several companions, got into difficulties in the heavy surf which was running at the time. Hi? plight was soon noticed, and his friends went to liis assistance and had almost reached the shore when a large wave caused them, to leave hold, and Watson was carried away. Dragging operations were commenced immediately, and after a short time the body was found. Curiously enough death had so changed his features, that Watson’s friend did not recognise him for some time after he was brought ashore. Artificial respiration was applied without avail and Dr Shand could only pronounce life extinct. Deceased, who had no relatives in New Zealand, came out from Ireland three and a half years ago. He was connected with the Salyation Army, and played the tenor horn in one of the city bands.