TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 11

TELEGRAMS

(Pee United Press Association) BLENHEIM. July 24. In the Magistrate's Court this morning Robert G. Ferris, a tobacconist, was charged with keeping a common gaming house. He plcadad guilty, and was fined £2O. - Francis Bine Rush, a well-known resident of Canvastown, was found dead last night with a gunshot wound in his head. Rush suffered a nervous breakdown 10 days ago, and was treated in Blenheim. He returned home last evening, and was found dead shortly afterwards. He was formerlv an employee of the P. and 1. Department. Three small brothers who appeared in the Children's Court at Blenheim to-day pleaded guilty to smashing 30 electric insulators. The police stated that in the last 12 months 300 insulators had been broken in various parts of the district. The magistrate remanded the children to be flogged by their father. "If he doesn't do it, I'll order it to be done by a constable," his Worship added. CHRISTCHURCH, July 24. The banks' staffs to-dny held a wheelbarrow race in the centre of the city to raise funds for a queen carnival to relieve distress. All the passengers in the barrows were Christehurch bank managers. A crowd numbering thousands thronged Short street, where the race was held, and members of the banks' stuffs, mostlv in faric-v dress, collected £llO