DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1936, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

CAR TRAGEDY.

(Per Press Association—Copyright)

DUNEDIN, May 11

Francis Harrisj the driver of the car ' which collided with Thomas J. Rogan and Charles" N. Stewart on Saturday night, was charged Splice .CP.uf t, this morning with being (intoxicated in charge of a car caus ! mg death, and 1 was remanded to June 3..' App)ying.:fpr hail, counsel said accused was' a farmer, ' with two properties at Moa Flat. He was a man of considerable substance and there could he no doubt as .to his appearance. He added that the charge would he strenuously defended. Bail was fixed at two sureties of £SOO. The two women injured ,are now definitely out of dange?. (

FOUND DEAD.

GISBORNE,, May 10

A motor-cycle and a man’s body jvas seen in a creek. It was found the body was that ,bf Josiah Haryey V\ 7 attoji, head shepherd on Maka Station. The lnotor-cycle and side-car most h,a,v.e gone over 1 the. side, and the complete vehicle capsized, clown tlie straight cliff about 25 feet into the creek. Wattog was 25 or 26 years of age and unmarried. Bis parents reside at •'fekaraka.

MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURED. CHR! STCH U RGB,. May 10.

L. Grimwood, a young man resident .at the corner of Junes Road and Rut- : land Street, fell frojn a motor-cycle at Leithfield Beach, this afternoon, when the cycle struck a patch of loose sand. He suffered the fracture of both of his legs and his colJarbope. He also suffered internal injuries.. His condition is serious.

CHILD KILLED.

CHRISTCHURCH May 9

Madley Phillips, aged twelve years, whose parents live at Canterbury Street, Lyttelton, ,'was Killed in the Lyttelton railway yard fate yesterday afternoon. With her brother, Clive Phillips, aged about 10 years, she had entered the" locomotive yard at the rear of the Lyttelton station.

GAMING HOUSE RAID

WELLINGTON, May 9. • Police raids oil three houses in Taranaki Street yesterday resulted in the > appearance before Mr Luxford, sS.M.,” in'the Magistrate’s Court- today, of tllr.ee Chinese on charges of using the of which they were, ip occupation, as common gani-. ing houses and of sqy&fi Eo.r,oP eans on charge?? of being found .without lawful excuse on these pyemis ; es. Chinese defendants were each fined £lO. Of the seven white fopnd on the permises, six were "'fined £l, enc hand the seventh 10s, -v; CAR FATALITY. ? f AKAROA, May 9. Lincoln George Armstrong, aged 20, H son of Mr . and Mrs Joseph Armstrong, of Akaroa. and a grandson of the late' Mr George Armstrong, for thirty yearsMayor of Akaroa. was killed instantly in a ear smash about seven o’clock last evening, on tho Tai Tapu-Akaroa main highway.